“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.” – Aeschylus
For New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan, this can be considered a season of learning and growing pains. They (the team) indeed had some high points and some low points, as part of the learning process. The Jets perhaps learned a football lesson in their game on Sunday [...]
As has been Jake Delhomme’s tendency this season, he has been prone to turning the ball over. During Sunday’s game between the Atlanta Falcons and Carolina Panthers, the embattled quarterback, for at least one week, seemed to have things under control as he utuilized the no-huddle offense to great effect as Carolina defeated Atlanta 28-19 [...]
The Falcons all season long had been waiting for Michael Turner to get back to the form of 2008. It may have taken 9 weeks, but Sunday at home vs the Redskins, “The Burner” was indeed back to form. Turner blasted his way for 166 yards on 18 carries, a 9.2 yard per [...]
The Falcons didn’t have to force Carolina QB Jake Delhomme into throwing picks, as Sunday at the Georgia Dome they had enough of their own offense to pound out a 28-20 win to move to 2-0 on the season.
Delhomme threw for over 300 yards, and had a touchdown pass, but most importantly, did not turn [...]
The preseason ended for the Falcons on Thursday night with a whimper, as the team didn’t play many starters or show much in a 20-3 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. Matt Ryan played just one series, making sure nothing bad happened before the teams opening game a week from Sunday.
After one series, the Falcons [...]
Looks like the Falcons have themselves a bigger and stronger QB in 2009:
Falcon Matt Ryan took to the weight room, and players have noticed a stronger and more athletic quarterback. “He scrambles better,” fullback Ovie Mughelli said. “He doesn’t look like a baby giraffe anymore when he scrambles.” Pro Bowl wide receiver Roddy White said: [...]
NFL.com’s Pat Kirwan was on hand this past week at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship, and talked to a number of past and present NFL folk on his show on SIRIUS NFL Radio show, and wrote about the notes in his blog on the site. Here’s an interesting tidbit that Kirwan wrote about how [...]
Think Matt Ryan isn’t excited about having a 10-time Pro Bowl tight end to throw to? Think again. “Well, yeah, certainly as a quarterback, any time you get a new toy, you want to try it out,” Ryan said Friday after a practice with his new TE. “I threw a couple of balls his way, [...]
The Falcons would love to add another playmaker for Matt Ryan to throw to next season, and today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution says that one player on their wish list might be Titans soon-to-be free agent TE Bo Scaife. Another guy if they can’t land Scaife is L.J. Smith from the Eagles. Here is the [...]
Not all the news this weekend is bad for the Falcons. Sunday, a day after the team was eliminated from the playoffs, head coach Mike Smith was bestowed from The Associated Press as the 2008 NFL Coach of the Year. Smith edged out Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano by one vote.
“I’m honored individually, but more [...]
