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
  • Poll closed .

Lweezy

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fukk Matt Ryan

fukk Sark

Falcons will never win a sb with these clowns. Y’all keep waiting for Ryan to be a savior or on a elite level like Aaron Rodgers, Ben, or Brady but Ryan is a midteir QB just above Dalton, Jay Cutler & Alex Smith.

A true elite QB would have multiple rings with all that talent on offense. Rodgers has never had a WR better than Julio or a RB as good as Free or Coleman and you see what he does.

Nah..not anymore
 

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Some quick observations:

1. We have to address our Offensive Guard situation. Matt is consistently pressured up the middle, which is the quickest way to get sacked. It's also why we are trash in short yard situations. It's no coincidence our best passing plays come off of playaction with wide rollouts, away from the interior rush.

2. Sark has to learn how to build plays. It feels like he just calls plays randomly. Shanny used to set up plays like a boxer. Jab, jab, hook. He was excellent at stressing the defense. Hit the TE up the seam behind the LBs, then hit freeman or coleman on a HB directional in front of the LBs, THEN take the top off the defense with Gabriel or Julio because the safeties feel they need to cheat to help the LBs. You have to test a defense's discipline. That's why it kills me to see playcallers not build on what works!!

3. I'd love a playmaking TE to help with the middle of the field.

4. Keanu seemed to play timid late in the season. He became a ball stripper rather than a tackler. He also needs to work on his angles and pass coverage. Consistently gets abused by good TEs.

5. I was disappointed in Poe's production. He never consistently got pressure up the middle. Don't know if we resign him.

6. We definitely need another WR. Julio is obviously on a play count and his foot gives him hell every season.

7. What was up with all the WR drops?

8. Vic should never be in coverage as much as he was this season. Get another LB. Keep Vic's hand in the dirt.

9. We don't have an intimidating homefield advantage. The Saints and Panthers games were the only times the MBS seemed electric, for obvious reasons.

10. Quinn needs to show balance between being a player's coach and being a disciplinarian. Too many dumb ass penalties either extended or killed drives. He needs game management skills too.

11. Trufant thinks he is faster than what he truly is. He got toasted alot from cheating in coverage and thinking he could recover.

12. I'll be interested to see Matt's new contract. That will tell me how wide our window of being competitive is.

Sorry for the long post. Overall, I'm still optimistic. Let's hope that this offseason is good to us.

Great breakdown. Repped.
 
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Bad guard play and Sark having no feel for how to call an NFL game were their Achilles heels all year. Dimitroff is pretty terrible at drafting o-linemen. Should only go after free agents. Definitely need to get a tight end worth a damn.

Still, the amount of talent on offense with a top 10 defense, this team should've been a juggernaut. :francis:
 

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The question is can Sark get better :lupe:

I do feel like towards the end of the season he found more ways to get people involved but red zone was abysmal.
 

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Reading how philly knew the fourth and goal play makes my blood boil fire sark

You know you've seen that rollout play fail enough over the past few years to know that even if there weren't any defenders on the field that shyt wasn't going to work.
 
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Sark gotta go y'all. The guy cant scheme anyone open. A deaf fullback out wide on 4th down is unforgivable.

Do we need a probowler at every offensive position for him to succeed?

Give me mike McCoy, Gary kubiak, or bevell. I dont care.
Poach Lafluer from the Rams get someone who can run Kyles offense
 

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Fire the OC and find a young talented QB to groom in prep for the inevitable.

And :mjlol: @ anyone thinking the Falcons will ever win anything of importance with Matty 'i got out-dualed by Nick Foles' Ryan at quarterback.
 
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