Matthew 28:3..."And his clothes were white as ICE!" The Official 2017 Atlanta Falcons Season Thread

How do the 2017 Atlanta Falcons finish the season?

  • Wild Card

    Votes: 6 8.6%
  • Division Winner

    Votes: 10 14.3%
  • NFC Champion

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • Super Bowl Champion

    Votes: 25 35.7%
  • *Insert cornball 28-3 joke from a fan of a team that hasn't made the playoffs in years* :beli:

    Votes: 9 12.9%
  • No playoffs

    Votes: 19 27.1%

  • Total voters
    70
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Watch Turbo on that play! :wow:
 

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So the Steelers beat the Browns by 3 points at home and move to the top of the ESPN power rankings. We beat Chicago by 6 on the road and drop 5 spots :francis:

It's gonna be a long season....
 

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So the Steelers beat the Browns by 3 points at home and move to the top of the ESPN power rankings. We beat Chicago by 6 on the road and drop 5 spots :francis:

It's gonna be a long season....

Power ranking are useless in the NFL. If anything they serve to keep this team on their toes as far as public opinion goes. No one cares about last year or how you look on paper. The eye test wins.

They didn't look like a great team Sunday. The Bears threw some wrinkles at us and we didn't adjust all that well. Great win on the road but we got a lot of kinks to work out.
 

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Power ranking are useless in the NFL. If anything they serve to keep this team on their toes as far as public opinion goes. No one cares about last year or how you look on paper. The eye test wins.

They didn't look like a great team Sunday. The Bears threw some wrinkles at us and we didn't adjust all that well. Great win on the road but we got a lot of kinks to work out.
More than ever we control our destiny. NO isn't better, Tampa should be improved but they now have 16 straight games and Carolina may have some new wrinkles but at best they have improved on offense and on defense we have at a minimum added speed and versatility.

Just gotta handle business week to week.
 
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Power ranking are useless in the NFL. If anything they serve to keep this team on their toes as far as public opinion goes. No one cares about last year or how you look on paper. The eye test wins.

They didn't look like a great team Sunday. The Bears threw some wrinkles at us and we didn't adjust all that well. Great win on the road but we got a lot of kinks to work out.

How is beating the BROWNS by 3 points passing the eye test? They actually got outscored on offense too. You're 1000% right that the shyt doesn't matter, it's just annoying to see how flat out wrong the media is with their narratives and everyone just lets them get away with it
 

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How is beating the BROWNS by 3 points passing the eye test? They actually got outscored on offense too. You're 1000% right that the shyt doesn't matter, it's just annoying to see how flat out wrong the media is with their narratives and everyone just lets them get away with it

I didn't watch the Steeler game but I will say offensively they seemed to rolling from the highlights. There was nothing to highlight about the what the Falcons did Sunday other than the great play by Matt and Hooper.

Stark was ultra conservative and flat out bland with the play calling. Its only one game but the contrast in playcalling is kinda scary. I got Greg Knapp/ Dirk Kotter vibes brehs. This might be why the media dropped them in the ranking. We might sorely miss Kyle's creativity.
 

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I didn't watch the Steeler game but I will say offensively they seemed to rolling from the highlights. There was nothing to highlight about the what the Falcons did Sunday other than the great play by Matt and Hooper.

Stark was ultra conservative and flat out bland with the play calling. Its only one game but the contrast in playcalling is kinda scary. I got Greg Knapp/ Dirk Kotter vibes brehs. This might be why the media dropped them in the ranking. We might sorely miss Kyle's creativity.

They seemed to be rolling because that's the narrative they want you to see. Truth is they got outscored 18-14. A recovered blocked punt for a TD was the difference in the game. We didn't have very many highlight plays but our offense and defense both outplayed theirs
 

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They seemed to be rolling because that's the narrative they want you to see. Truth is they got outscored 18-14. A recovered blocked punt for a TD was the difference in the game. We didn't have very many highlight plays but our offense and defense both outplayed theirs

Either way, it's not much you can learn from one game on the books. 5-7 games is typically when you can get an accurate assessment of a team.
 

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You could tell the NFL "analysts" were itching to drop us down from number 2. The Steelers look like crap against a worse team but they move up. With that being said, we should've blew the Bears out.
 

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You could tell the NFL "analysts" were itching to drop us down from number 2. The Steelers look like crap against a worse team but they move up. With that being said, we should've blew the Bears out.

Right. I wouldn't even be mad if the moved the Chiefs and Cowboys and even Raiders ahead of us for beating down projected playoff contenders. But to reward a team for doing worse against a worse opponent than we did and lift them above us and those other teams shows they're not even trying to have any type of journalistic integrity
 

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I'll judge the Falcons after I see them play a team not led by Mike Glennon. The Bears might or might not have a good D.
 

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I didn't watch the Steeler game but I will say offensively they seemed to rolling from the highlights. There was nothing to highlight about the what the Falcons did Sunday other than the great play by Matt and Hooper.

Stark was ultra conservative and flat out bland with the play calling. Its only one game but the contrast in playcalling is kinda scary. I got Greg Knapp/ Dirk Kotter vibes brehs. This might be why the media dropped them in the ranking. We might sorely miss Kyle's creativity.

Bad combo of that, crap field position and conservative play calling depending on your guys to win 1 on 1 match-ups
 

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Good win tonight. Sark had the offense looking like itself with the creativity. The pre snap motion, the off balanced alignments, the offense looked great. Julio, Sanu, Free/TeCo, Matt the whole OL looked in sync even without Schareder for most of the game

Defense looked elite at times outside of the first drive. Trufant was the star of the game with his INT and fumble return for a TD changing the game. Best game he's had in a long time

Now we gotta get healthy going to Detroit. Hopefully Schraeder (concussion) & Vic (hamstring) are back next wk but we'll see
 
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