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 [...]
Who would have ever thought nine weeks into the NFL season that the Atlanta Falcons would be one game better than the New Orleans Saints? That’s the case as we stand heading into the Saints-Falcons week 10 battle, as the 5-3 Falcons get ready for a Georgia Dome showdown with the Saints in what [...]
It was another frustrating week for the Oakland Raiders, as they were beat up on offense and ran over on defense at Baltimore on Sunday. This week they return home for an interesting matchup vs the Atlanta Falcons, a team that even though they lost in Philly last week, hung in with a team [...]
Sometimes you get the calls – sometimes you don’t. Sunday in Philly, the Falcons were by all means robbed by the refs, as the stripes called a fumble on a punt when it looked like Adam Jennings may have touched the ball on the Falcons 40 with 2:28 to go.
If the Falcons get the [...]
