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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Michael Turner continues to be the driving force behind the Falcons run game as well as their turn around for the 2008 season. Sunday vs the Bucs he ran for 152 yards rushing on 32 carries. It was the most rushing yards Turner had in a game since his 220 yard outing against Detroit [...]

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, [...]

With all odds against them, the Denver Broncos found themselves backed into a corner by injuries heading to Atlanta. Earlier this week, they signed running back Tatum Bell to help give them some depth at running back voided by injury.
Also, with two linebackers out, the Broncos decided to start fullback Spencer Larsen [...]