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By Ramairez

July 30, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this

Is it true that Roddy White is having a horrible camp and is fighting for a roster spot?

By Casey

July 30, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this

Any chance Jordan Beck will get a more significant role this year? He’s a hard hitter on special teams, but I’ve yet to see him on defense. And now it seems Huff and Nicholas have got a leg up on him. You can only make it as a “special teams player” so many years before they cut you loose, right?

By matt

July 30, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

keep an eye on DJ …

By Doug

July 30, 2007 3:58 PM | Link to this

Brooking looks awesome man. He looks like he’s ready for the season to start. Roddy looks terrible and what is up with Rossum…that guy needs to be released!!!

By Falcon Girl

July 30, 2007 4:09 PM | Link to this

Any news on the rookie safety from Maine.. Daren Stone?

By AFinPC

July 30, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this

Any info on David Irons would be great!

By War Damn Eagle!

July 30, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this

Roddy White is/was a horrible draft pick-UAB, please didn’t they just get a team within the last decade or so? Just shows you how unimpressive Rich McKay & the rest of the organization is and has been! Didn’t see any warning signs reagrding Mike Vick,pleasssssse!

Its’ a shame we will not see Brian Finneran this year, he’s one of the only receivers that has any heart and can go acroos the middle with Alge!

D’Hall please man up this year and prove you are not cut from the same cloth as your Hokie buddy Ookie!

By War Damn Eagle!

July 30, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this

Roddy White is/was a horrible draft pick-UAB, please didn’t they just get a team within the last decade or so? Just shows you how unimpressive Rich McKay & the rest of the organization is and has been! Didn’t see any warning signs reagrding Mike Vick,pleasssssse!

Its’ a shame we will not see Brian Finneran this year, he’s one of the only receivers that has any heart and can go across the middle with Alge!

D’Hall please man up this year and prove you are not cut from the same cloth as your Hokie buddy Ookie!

By War Damn Eagle!

July 30, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this

Roddy White is/was a horrible draft pick-UAB, please didn’t they just get a team within the last decade or so? Just shows you how unimpressive Rich McKay & the rest of the organization is and has been! Didn’t see any warning signs reagrding Mike Vick,pleasssssse!

Its’ a shame we will not see Brian Finneran this year, he’s one of the only receivers that has any heart and can go across the middle with Alge!

D’Hall please man up this year and prove you are not cut from the same cloth as your Hokie buddy Ookie!

By Tim McDaniel

July 30, 2007 4:59 PM | Link to this

WAITING ON A UPDATE….THIS WAS POSTED OVER 2 HOURS AGO, and practice started over an hour and a half ago.

By jack

July 30, 2007 5:21 PM | Link to this

Sounds to me like War Damn Eagle is drunk!!!

By kevin

July 30, 2007 5:22 PM | Link to this

keep an eye on chris houston and jimmy wiilams

By falcon fan for life

July 30, 2007 5:50 PM | Link to this

hows chris houston look? does D Hall spend a lot of time with him?

By falcon fan for life

July 30, 2007 5:53 PM | Link to this

is jimmy looking good at his natural position?

By pete

July 30, 2007 5:56 PM | Link to this

Jamaal Anderson will be an upgrade over Patrick Kearney, who was injured while cleaning his nails…….a complete wus. Anderson will be a superstar in the NFL. He’s a TOTAL package.

By Johnny B

July 30, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this

I’ve read everything on here since camp started and haven’t heard much about a lot of things….

How’s Algie coming along? What about the stud fullback we signed from the Ravens? I haven’t even heard his name mentioned…

How is the kicking competition going? Who’s returning punts and kickoffs? How’s J Williams looking at safety? I could go on and on!!!

So many questions and so little news!

By Red Fox

July 30, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this

Worst blog ever…

By Craig's blog Sucks

July 30, 2007 6:35 PM | Link to this

Craig, what the heck? where are the promised updates?

By JMark

July 30, 2007 6:45 PM | Link to this

Dang, y’all riding Craig to death, one would think you are paying for the online news. Go get tomorrow’s paper if you want details. VICK, like Jay Z says, your guilty till proven innocent. Another case of haters trying to bring down a superstar. Craig, lemme know how Norwood and Harrington are looking.

By Andy

July 30, 2007 7:58 PM | Link to this

Have the cheerleaders shown up yet???

By Jay

July 30, 2007 8:53 PM | Link to this

I would like to know how DJ Shockley is progressing in camp, and if he has a real chance at battling Harrington for the starting spot at quarterback.

By Call Me Earl

July 31, 2007 9:03 AM | Link to this

How’s the competition between J.Williams and C.Croker going?

Also, does DJ look improved enough to handle the starting duties now or the future?

Are the rookies learning the system, and which one do you think will make the biggest contribution?

By T money

July 31, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this

I think Dj Shockley should be starting this year. If not he should get alot of playing time.

By Sir W

July 31, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this

Atl needs vick to win. No Vick no Tickets, No tickets no money for tha A town. Maybe they can fight pits in the tunnel before the game

By JOHN

July 31, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this

SIR W OR DOES THAT MEAN NO CLASS YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME VICK DIDNT WIN LAST YEAR HE IS A COMPLETE IDIOT. HE’S A GREAT DUMB ATHALETE. GO FALCONS ……… VICKLESS…………..

By ccustance9731

July 31, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

Guys - each time I update it’s a new blog, so you have to look at the entries links at the left to catch the updates. - Craig

By MV7

July 31, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this

Eyes don’t sleep with no dogs. Eyes just make them fight, f******* them when they is good & tired and then kill them.

By bushwacker

July 31, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this

sounds like to war damn eagle is right on about Rich Mckay , Didn’t see any warning signs reagrding Mike Vick,pleasssssse!

And gutless D Hall, if SOMEONE SPITS IN MY FACE, I’m all over them like white on rice, like flies on shi_, like….well you get the message!!

By dee

July 31, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

This comes from a post I saw on another blog..Came from Rip2137.

The thing I find odd about all this.

It was completely concieveable that Wayne Gretzky didn’t know his wife, who lived in the same home as him, was part of a gambling ring. Wayne said he didn’t know, she said he didn’t know, and thats all there is to it. No one questioned it.

It was completely concieveable that Patrick Kerney had no idea that this group of people came in his house and one of them was rape by another. All while he was IN the house physically at the time of the attack. He said he was sleep and the police said the victim said he had nothing to do with it, and everything was just fine. No one questioned it.

But it is completely unconcieveable that Mike Vick could not know what was going on in a house thousands of miles away that he bought for a cousin. There is absolutely unbelieveable.

You know what I blame? Cornrows. I can’t even say black and white, because when Kobe was charged with RAPE every story was someone talking about how Kobe could never do this, or the girl was obviously crazy, or how much of a strong person he was for being in court in Denver and playing a game the same day. The league was APPLAUDED for not suspending him, after he was indicted. On a RAPE charge. Vick has been called irresponsible for wanting to play through it, and people are applauding the commish and blank for suspending the guy when he is charged with dog fighting.

I think Dog fighting is wrong and guilty should be punished, but how in the world is a rape charge less serious to than a dog fighting charge in the eyes of the law. Its the cornrows i tells ya! I don’t even want to get into the portrayal of Allen Iverson in the media.

With Vick, they pretend that A: it was proven he gave some lady herpes because he setteled out of court. I guess that means Peyton manning is guilty of those sexual harrassment charges that got settled out of court…that never get talked about B: he was flipping off falcons fans. It was New Orleans fans in the Georgia dome. Get it right. Its not like he was flipping off home fans…like Jake Plummer did…but that never gets mentioned. C: He wasn’t proven innoccent in the water bottle incident. There were no drugs in the thing. That was proven. This is a fact. But they continually bring it up as instances of bad judgement or criminal judgement by Vick.

I don’t know if he is guilty or innocent. He says he is innoncent and I have no reason to believe that he isn’t as of now. If he is proved guilty, then kick him off the team, out the league for all I care.

But the sad thing is, if he is found innocent, no one is going to care. They have made him guilty in the media already and a innocent verdict will just still be looked at as “He just got away with it” by far to many people. Sadly I think he has played his last game as a Falcon, despite his innocence or guilt and that is sad.

By larry the cable guy

July 31, 2007 2:30 PM | Link to this

you said “in a house thousands of miles away”. i did not know that virginia was thousands of miles away from atlanta!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahah. what a complete idiot!! must be mike vicks brother writing that one!!!!!! hahahahaha. vick is gone!!!!!!!! thank god.

By Joshua Barlowe

July 31, 2007 4:45 PM | Link to this

wow we’ve gotten so many good updates here! Thanks AJC!

By Vick #1 Fan

July 31, 2007 7:50 PM | Link to this

Subject: Dog fighting or abuse of women? You tell me which issue is more important:

NFL: American Football League & N’Gro Football League

Michael Vick. Say his name slowly. Doesn’t it just roll off your tongue like a five-year prison sentence and permanent banishment from the National Football League?

Now say this name ———— Patrick Kerney. Sounds like a field of dreams, a gangly cornstalk growing into a strong young man, upstanding and flag-bearing Americans ideal of high morals - Jesus Christ, these United States, and American football.

He is a gentrified young man. A Man of the South and its genteel intelligentsia that was just as easily able to pull a Thomas Jefferson and justify slavery as it is careful in hiding anything resembling a sordid underbelly.

Kerney, a native Pennsylvanian, played his college ball in horse country Charlottesville at the University of Virginia. Vick, born and raised in Newport News, Va., played his ball in b******* beautiful Blacksburg at Virginia Tech. At the time of their stays at the two schools, the two universities never crossed paths. It was as if the horse breeders from the rolling hills of Charlottesville might soil their skin if they crossed in close proximity to that Blacksburg university’s agricultural corn-pone origins.

Today, Vick is a ruthless dog killer, squandering his money on jury-rigged Aquafina bottles, diamonds and other thug toys - and betting on dog fights. Kerney, on the other hand, is looking toward rejuvenating his career under Super Bowl Champion head coach Mike Holmgren and the Seattle Seahawks.

But Kerney, like the university he attended, has a potentially nasty reality that belies his cherubic smile and down-to-earth image.

See, in Patrick Kerney’s home early in the morning of March 18, a woman was raped. Kerney, who is now in Seattle, had a home just outside of Atlanta in Buckhead, Georgia. Here’s an excerpt from a WSB-TV, Atlanta report:

Police said a woman claims she was raped inside Kerney’s home early Sunday morning.

Channel 2’s Dale Cardwell said as rape allegations go, the police report filed is extremely thin. Nobody has been named in the police report, no one has been arrested and, at this point, there is no indication Kerney was involved.

According to the victim, the incident started at Saturday night at a Buckhead bar. The 29-year-old woman said she and some friends accepted a ride home from three men.

There is no mention in the report of Kerney being involved.

Once back at his home, the report says a man and his two friends were invited inside Kerney’s home for a couple of drinks, at which point the victim stated she got sleepy and, “fell asleep on the sofa.”

The woman then said she woke up in the bedroom and a man was having intercourse with her. She said she told the man to stop but he then placed his thumb on her throat and continued. She also said she was forced to perform oral sex on the man.

The woman said that she was able to escape by telling him she was going to get a friend to join them. Once outside the bedroom, the woman said she ran into a bathroom with a friend and the man fled the scene along with his two friends.

Kerney, who recently signed a multiyear deal with the Seattle Seahawks, answered his door for Channel 2 and told us he was the victim in this, but did not elaborate.

In a statement issued yesterday, Kerney said an assault had happened at this house while he was asleep. But he says he can’t comment further, “out of respect for my friend who was assaulted and the police officers who are diligently working to apprehend the offenders.”

A neighbor of Kerney’, a woman, was asked if Kerney might have been involved in the rape. She said she knew him for years and there was no way Kerney was involved.

Now, here’s a report in the News Tribune in Seattle:

A police report named no suspects, WSB-TV in Atlanta reported, but Kerney identified the victim as a friend. She had apparently returned to Kerney’s home with three men after a night at a nearby bar.

“I am aware that, while I was asleep on Sunday morning, an assault took place in my home,” Kerney said in a statement. “Out of respect for my friend who was assaulted, and the police officers who are diligently working to apprehend the offenders, I cannot comment any further.

“My focus is on supporting my friend during this time of need.”

News of the incident broke Monday afternoon on WSB, the ABC affiliate in Atlanta. The woman, 29, told police she rode from the bar to Kerney’s home with three men other than Kerney, the station said.

And by the time the story hit the Internet shock jocks, the headline read:

“Alleged Rape Took Place in Kerney’s Home” (emphasis mine)

In the Kerney rape case we have the immediate premise of innocence for the Seahawks defensive lineman; his female neighbor tells us so. We have a “thin” police report. It is so thin, that it barely exists in the police’s consciousness. In the sports blogsphere, the rape was alleged.

As we know, Michael Vick had no such luxury as the presumption on innocence. There was no “alleged” in sports blog headlines. And no one was sought out to speak in his behalf. Kerney proclaimed his innocence without as much as a sniff of a challenge. Vick, like Kerney, proclaimed his innocence, It was met with abject derision.

Kerney’s house was never scoured for evidence. Neither Kerney, nor anyone who was at his house that night was taken down to the police station and questioned. Kerney’s flimsy story that he was asleep was never challenged by the police or by the local press.

With Vick, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) immediately flexed its muscles and lunged after Vick like a ———- fighting dog. There was no rebuking of Kerney or the perpetrator(s) by the National Organization of women (NOW) or any other Women’s rights groups. For Kerney, there were no mainstream sports media reports on rape in relation to athletes.

There are between 20,000 and 40,000 people in the U.S. who participate in dog fighting activities. If we average the two numbers, one-one hundredth of one percent of the U.S. population is involved in dog fighting. By contrast, 31% of women in the U.S. - about 49 million - report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives. Nearly 25% of U.S. women - about 38.25 million -report being raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or date at some time in their lifetime.

Dog fighting or abuse of women? You tell me which issue is more important.

You tell me why Tom Lantos (D-Ca.) feels the need to speak out against Michael Vick and dog fighting, but not against Patrick Kerney or his friends and the rape and physical abuse of women?

You tell me how Michael Vick is being held accountable for the alleged actions of his cousin Devon Boddie and Tony Taylor in a house that Vick bought for his cousin but did not live near, but Patrick Kerney is not being held accountable for the rape that took place in his house while he allegedly lay asleep in another room?

I don’t hear about Patrick Kerney being forced to tell police investigators who was in his house that evening. No psychological examination was performed on the woman to explore the possibility that she might actually be protecting Kerney. To date, no DNA evidence has been gathered from either the rape victim or Kerney, or anyone else allegedly involved with the case. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell hasn’t called Patrick Kerney into his office. In fact, Goodell has issued not one public statement regarding Patrick Kerney or the Kerney rape case.

Terrence Moore, columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, never wrote a column criticizing Kerney or his choice of friends, like he did with Michael Vick. He never wrote a column asking for an expanded police presence in the Kerney case as he has with federal agents and Vick. AJC writer Steve Wyche, since May 28, has written 24 articles or columns about Michael Vick. He hasn’t come remotely close to doing the same with Patrick Kerney.

Why Terrence, why Steve? If Moore and Wyche reported the Kerney case as with the same vigor as they have the dog fighting case, today our primary topic of conversation in the sports world would be vastly different.

And it’s not as if the Vick case wouldn’t see the light of day. The outright lies, the anti-Vick bias, and the sensationalism surrounding the case would disappear. The Michael Vick case would stand a chance of being reported responsibly.

However, the two cases are where they stand and responsible reporting is the least of the problems with the disparity in the treatment of Michael Vick and of Patrick Kerney.

We cannot blame the relative fame of the two athletes. Duke Lacrosse was barely a blip on the sports radar before the infamous rape case involving lacrosse team members. We cannot blame the issues. Both are important, but dog fighting doesn’t compare with the physical abuse and rape of women.

There is one issue, though, that looms over both the Patrick Kerney rape case and the Michael Vick case. And that issue has nothing to do with fame, evidence, or the relative importance of the issues.

I know what that issue is.

So do you.

Article Source: http://thestartingfive.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/michael-vick-patrick-kerney-the-difference-comes-down-to-one-issue/#more-903

By William

August 1, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

QUOTE TO NOTE “I like Fred (Gibson), he’s in the mix. He’s competing real hard. The one thing that Fred really has going for him is he can catch the ball away from his body. He can go up in the air, extend his arms and catch the curl routes when he’s covered. His size has really helped him. I think he’s been a real pleasant surprise for us.” — Falcons head coach Bobby Petrino on WR Fred Gibson.

Copyright (C) 2007 The Sports Xchange. All Rights Reserved.

Coach Petrino hopefully will remember this double-talk when Roddy White repeatedly drops passes this year. You cut the pride of Waycross to send a message. I think the Vick case was enough of a message. What do we know anyway? Let’s check back at the end of the season and see who knows what.