****Atlanta Falcons**** And The NFL In General

[Stannicus]

While I'm sure it might have felt that way at the moment for you boys.... that wasn't even close to the worst (2004, 2006, obviously 2012). But it wasn't for lack of effort on LSU's part to make it the worst!

Nope! Those games aren't even close. LSU didn't even CROSS THE 50 yd line UNTIL THE 4th quarter! Hands down the worst showing in *****cat history!

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Pre-season games mean squat. Falcons went 1-3 last pre-season.

Exactly

 

[GeauxLSU]

Nope! Those games aren't even close. LSU didn't even CROSS THE 50 yd line UNTIL THE 4th quarter! Hands down the worst showing in *****cat history!

Well now, THAT's a completely different statement isn't it? I believe you said it was "hands down the worst BCS ass-smashing in the history of the sport". It was not. By a long shot. Check the box scores.
The margin of victory in the game you are apparently still basking over was 21 points and Bama had 384 yards of offense.
Last year's game over ND, Bama had a margin of victory of 28 points and 529 yards of offense.
In 2004 USC over Choklahoma had a margin of victory of 36 points and 525 yards of offense.
You still contend those game "aren't even close"? Wait a minute... I agree. They're not close!
But you are partially correct, LSU sucked in that game. You should feel bad for beating up on our 'challenged' coach. But hey, if I was Saban and had lost on my home field to LSU 4 games prior in the fashion he did with the NC on the line.... I'd have "had my mad up" to.

 

[FB Si]

While we're talking about the BCS, how about that last National Championship game. That was a close one! Lol

 

[Tony2X]

The Super Bowl that shoulda been will happen tomorrow night!...for a couple of snaps anyway...lol

 

[Stannicus]

Flaccid is a good QBS I can't argue that. But if Matty Ice had come into the league with that SAME defense he would have played in at least two SB's with at least one win!

 

[Camaro2052]

Matty Ice does not have half the arm Flacco has. If Flacco had Julio Jones it would be over for opposing defenses!

 

[FB Si]

Matty Ice does not have half the arm Flacco has. If Flacco had Julio Jones it would be over for opposing defenses!

I agree with that. I've been to several practices in Flowery Branch and Ryan has to put some serious air under his deep throws.

 

[Tony2X]

He threw for almost 5000 yards last year, he is the best QB Atlanta has ever had IMO.

Passing

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[TH="class: tooltip sort_default_asc, align: center"]Age[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip sort_default_asc show_partial_when_sorting, align: left"]Tm[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip sort_default_asc, align: left"]Pos[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip sort_default_asc, align: center"]No.[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]G[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]GS[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]QBrec[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]Cmp[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]Att[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip hide_non_quals, align: center"]Cmp%[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]Yds[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]TD[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip hide_non_quals, align: center"]TD%[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]Int[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip sort_default_asc hide_non_quals, align: center"]Int%[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]Lng[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip hide_non_quals, align: center"]Y/A[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip hide_non_quals, align: center"]AY/A[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip hide_non_quals, align: center"]Y/C[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip hide_non_quals, align: center"]Y/G[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip hide_non_quals, align: center"]Rate[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]Sk[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]Yds[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip hide_non_quals, align: center"]NY/A[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip hide_non_quals, align: center"]ANY/A[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip sort_default_asc hide_non_quals, align: center"]Sk%[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]4QC[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]GWD[/TH]
[TH="class: tooltip, align: center"]AV[/TH]
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[TD="align: left"]2008[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]23[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]ATL[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]QB[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]16[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]16[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]11-5-0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]265[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]434[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]61.1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3440[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]16[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.7[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]11[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]70[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13.0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]215.0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]87.7[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]17[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]104[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.40[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.01[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.8[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]14[/TD]
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[TR="class: full_table"]
[TD="align: left"]2009[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]24[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]ATL[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]QB[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]14[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]14[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]9-5-0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]263[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]451[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]58.3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2916[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]22[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]14[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]90[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]6.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]6.0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]11.1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]208.3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]80.9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]19[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]92[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]6.01[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5.60[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: full_table"]
[TD="align: left"]2010*[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]25[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]ATL[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]QB[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]16[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]16[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13-3-0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]357[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]571[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]62.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3705[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]28[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1.6[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]46[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]6.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]6.8[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10.4[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]231.6[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]91.0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]23[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]158[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5.97[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]6.23[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3.9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]16[/TD]
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[TR="class: full_table"]
[TD="align: left"]2011[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]26[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]ATL[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]QB[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]16[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]16[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10-6-0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]347[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]566[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]61.3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4177[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]29[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5.1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]12[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]80[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.4[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]12.0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]261.1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]92.2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]26[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]173[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]6.76[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]6.83[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.4[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]15[/TD]
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[TD="align: left"]2012*[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]27[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]ATL[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]QB[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]16[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]15[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]13-3-0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]422[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]615[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]68.6[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4719[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]32[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5.2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]14[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]80[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.7[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.7[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]11.2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]294.9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]99.1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]28[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]210[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.01[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.03[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.4[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]18[/TD]
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[TR="class: stat_total"]
[TD="align: left"]Career[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: left"][/TD]
[TD="align: left"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]78[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]77[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]56-22-0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1654[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2637[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]62.7[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]18957[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]127[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.8[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]60[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]90[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]7.1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]11.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]243.0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]90.9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]113[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]737[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]6.63[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]6.57[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]16[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]23[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]73[/TD]
[/TR]
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[FB Si]

Steve Bartkowski was better. He just played for some TERRIBLE Falcons teams. When you play for terrible teams, you have to try to make throws that you normally wouldn't attempt, and also take A LOT more hits. You can't just look at stats and say, "oh, that guy was better".

If Matt Ryan had played for those teams, he never would've survived all of the hits. He'd be on the IR for most of the season.

 

[Stannicus]

The niners second and third string defense looks really good as well as their backup RB's. I can't wait to play them.