* First drive was a huge success. 10 plays that the offense seemed to run on all cylinders. Issue is, they had to settle for a field goal. Good news though is Matt Bryant nailed it from 46 yards, giving the team an early 3-0 lead.
* Defense gave it right back, which [...]
The Falcons are talking about wanting a new place to play, as Friday team president Rich McKay said the club wants a new stadium within seven years. In response to asking for a new home, Frank Poe, the executive director of the Georgia World Congress Center which manages the Georgia Dome, told The Associated [...]
The Falcons official site reports that the team is going to have some combined practices coming up during training camp:
The Atlanta Falcons will host combined practices with the Jacksonville Jaguars and New England Patriots during the 2010 training camp.
Jacksonville will visit Atlanta’s Flowery Branch headquarters for practices on Monday, August 9 and Tuesday, August 10. [...]
Matt Ryan and the young Falcons got an education on Saturday in Arizona. Some of it could probably have been expected, but it was still frustrating to watch. Ryan threw two interceptions, while the Falcons run game let them down when they really could have used it as the Falcons season ended with [...]
It was really a tale of two halves for Matt Ryan. After setting a rookie record for completions in a playoff game by the end of the first half, which was previously 20, he looked like a rookie for most of the second half.
He also got virtually no production out of his [...]
While the Falcons had already clinched a playoff birth with their win last week over the Vikings, they still had plenty to play for on Sunday. They needed a win with a Panthers loss to clinch the two-seed in the NFC. They got it half right. Thanks to a late TD run by Jerious Norwood, [...]
As crazy as it sounds, the Atlanta Falcons, a team that was in so much disarray last season its own coach quit on them with three games left in the season, are going to the NFC Playoffs. Yes, the Falcons, thanks to a gutsy 24-17 victory in frosty Minnesota on Sunday, have landed one of [...]
This was billed as one of the marquee match-ups of the weekend, and it definitely lived up to the hype. The Falcons came away with a huge victory at home, continuing with the trend of NFC South teams being dominant against divisional foes in their own house. This one went right down to the wire, [...]
The Atlanta Falcons have turned around what was a disaster 2007, and now at 6-3 are talking about the second season as if there is a legit shot for this team to make the playoffs. And there is. This week they play host to the 5-4 Denver Broncos, a team that despite being [...]
Atlanta continued its challenge for dominance of the NFC South division as it beat rival New Orleans for the first time in the last two years. A lack of mistakes on offense for Atlanta and well-played defense solidified the win for the Falcons even though the Saints staged a fourth quarter rally .
Saints QB [...]
