Pre-Season Open Thread: Atlanta Falcons vs. Tennessee Titans

Courtesy of atlantafalcons.com, of course:

- CB David irons
- T Terrance Pennington
- C Alex Stepanovich
- TE Martrez Milner

J. Michael Moore is also reporting that Todd Weiner will start at right tackle and Curtis Lofton will get the start at MLB over Tony Taylor.

I’ll be providing my updates in the comments from now on, as it’s easier and I can better converse with all of you. Let me know what you think.

Let’s go Falcons!

Not a good sign for our secondary.

Falcons finally clamped down on the Titans’ horrible WRs, and we’ll get the ball.

Two efficient passes to Mike Jenkins gets us going.

WHat’s going on here?

Only the first drive, but mistakes stalled it.

Vince Young is doing well thus far.

With a particularly great penalty. Well done, Chris!

Mashes Vince Young. Way to earn your paycheck, guy!

Terrific interception there.

Falcons moving.

At least we definitely know Elam’s leg works.

Matt Ryan looks pretty good again so far. At this point, he’s earning his way to the starter’s job.

What’s going on here?

And now it’s time for Ryan to excel.

Gets a false start penalty, slowing what was otherwise a sick start to a drive by Ryan.

Incidentally, Mike Jenkins has caught five passes so far. Hell just got a little drafty.

Penalties continue to kill this team.

But when you don’t have any receivers, what do you expect?

That’s hugely embarrassing.

Making the Roddy White/Jenkins tandem of a couple years ago look like Rice and Taylor.

Might as well not even be on the field tonight.

Horrible miss on that one.

Am I going to be talking to myself in the second half, too?

Of the game. Four yards on a scramble, even.

That’s the big play potential he brings.

Ryan tosses a TD. He has virtually locked up the starting job at this point, and I’m going to find it difficult to argue against it.

Let’s see if we can get one more.

I can’t get coverage here in Athens? How is this game blacked out in Georgia!? I’ve looked at all my channels, and NBC is covering the Dallas game for some reason. Not even on NFL network! What am I paying DirectTV for?

Keep me updated Dave!

Our offensive line is throwing a penalty party today.

The offense still isn’t exactly dynamic, but guys like Finneran are getting a lot of run today.

The Titans are crawling down the field.

Has what’s likely to be his last glorious moment before he’s cut, with a sack of Kerry Collins.

If you can call sacking Kerry Collins glorious.

But Redman’s doing enough with his chances that he’s still in the conversation. At this point, though, I have a feeling he’ll be the backup.

Redman has arguably been better, given that it’s taken him fewer passes to get close to 100 yards, but it’s worth keeping in mind that he’s facing the Titans’ backups.

Snelling continues to perform pretty darn well out there.

The Titans are just making everyone look like a hero today. Brown got a ton of run on that last drive and manages to take it home. He and Snelling are making the #3 RB battle pretty interesting.

Drops Ingle Martin for a sack. I didn’t expect anything out of Biermann before the season, but he’s at least going to make the roster after the pre-season he’s had. He could be great as a high-energy bench guy.

17-3, Falcons triumph. A very sloppy game, but we won, so what the hell. I’ll have postgame thoughts up tonight or tomorrow morning.

I missed it. “Tropical Storm/Hurricane/Tropical Storm/very confused weather pattern Fay” couldn’t seem to make up it’s damned mind where it wanted to go, so it just hovered over NE Florida for a week. I was without power for stretches, without Sat TV for even more longer stretches, and even had it been nice and sunny, being in Freakville doesn’t help when it comes to getting Falcons games on TV.

Maybe when the Jags have road games and the Falcons are at home I’ll get to catch a glimpse.