Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports talks about Falcons RB Michael Turner, and the bruising back says that last season he got lazy after a huge 2008 when the team made the postseason.
“I thought I’d just rest, but I was off too long, I got sloppy with my eating, the whole thing,” he said. “By the [...]
Yahoo! Sports has a list of players and teams under pressure as they enter training camp of the 2010 season, and one of the players on the list is the Falcons #1 running back Michael Turner:
Players with bad bodies (Turner is listed as 5-foot-10, 244 pounds) have a tendency to overreact when things start to [...]
KFFL.com, a premiere fantasy site, says that Falcons back Michael Turner should cross the goal-line 13 to 15 times in 2010, and will bounce back from his ankle injury of 2009:
Pros: Turner is coming off an injury-shortened season, but he still managed to score 10 times in 11 games in 2009. His yards-per-carry average increased [...]
Power rusher Michael Turner said Saturday that he will continue his offseason conditioning at the Falcons facility. Turner is attempting to stay as healthy as possible after a nagging high-ankle sprain caved in his 2009 season after nine games. Turner said it’s been a constant effort to avoid a second straight injury-plagued season, but it’s [...]
RB Michael Turner, who suffered a high ankle sprain last season, said Friday he didn’t feel better until two months ago. “When I first came back in March I still wasn’t feeling the same,” Turner said. “I kept working on it and got all the soreness and feel fine right now.” Turner was asked if [...]
ESPN’s Rachel Nichols is reporting that Atlanta Falcons running back Michael Turner plans to play when the team takes on the New York Jets 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 [...]
Will Michael Turner have less carries in 2009? It appears that way, as the Atlanta Journal Constitution points out today:
The Falcons don’t want to lean as heavily on running back Michael Turner, who ran for 1,741 yards on 394 carries and scored 17 touchdowns in 17 games last season. “We know that he can’t [...]
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 [...]
