Post-Game Thread: Falcons Smash 49ers 45-10
This game was so ridiculous that I had to wonder if there was a pound of hallucinogens in my lunch.
To have the Atlanta Falcons go into hostile territory the week after a bye and play like they did defies belief. We knew they were a good offensive team, but a team that wins by 35 points good? And holds the Niners to 10 points? That's just impressive as hell.
As usual, consider this your post-game thread for all things Falcons and the win today. We'll have my bizarre rantings in the form of a recap tomorrow and tlozwarlock will surely weigh in if the wife will let him.
A few things to consider:
- Record setting day. Most points ever by the Falcons in the first half of a game, the most receiving yards ever in game by one Roddy White, and Matt Ryan set his personal best for passing yards. We just blew up on offense today, and that includes the ground game, where Michael Turner finally got it going.
- I can't imagine a more penalty and mistake ridden game for both sides. Might've been a lot closer if it hadn't worked out that way, but that's why you play the games. I hope that in future weeks, we can dial down the sloppiness.
- But hey, was that a complaint? I really don't have too many. Great game that keeps us right in the race for the NFC South. Can't knock the hustle shown by the offensive line or the entire defense today. They played to win it and it showed.
- Sweet!
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I have already gone and rubbed the win in the Niners's Nation
by thisistherevolt on Oct 11, 2009 7:42 PM EDT reply actions
Oh, that won't end well
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with whom?
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. - Bill Shankly
by armchair quarterback on Oct 11, 2009 7:49 PM EDT up reply actions
What I'm hearing
Is that a Falcon was mouthing off and Singletary got involved. I’d hope our guys aren’t rubbing it in, but my reaction is still a resounding shrug.
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It was Dahl
Like I even have to say it.
Driving the "Fire Willie Martinez" bandwagon since 2006
by SG Standard on Oct 11, 2009 10:48 PM EDT up reply actions
One of these days
That boy is going to maul someone like a bear.
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by Dave Choate on Oct 11, 2009 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions
He has probably mauled a bear like a bear
Men don’t fight back hard enough for Harvey Dahl. I move that we nickname him “Harvey Two-Face”, although, now that I think about it, he is yet to show a second face to go along with the nasty, evil one we have come to know and love and fear. And oh, how we fear it. I could see him shooting a man based on a coin flip, though.
Driving the "Fire Willie Martinez" bandwagon since 2006
by SG Standard on Oct 11, 2009 11:15 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
i like bear tho
Harvey “the bear” Dahl
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. - Bill Shankly
by armchair quarterback on Oct 11, 2009 11:20 PM EDT up reply actions
or mauler
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. - Bill Shankly
by armchair quarterback on Oct 11, 2009 11:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Great win!
Good to see Roddy break out (in a huge way).
Turner had a good day, with 3 TD’s and at least the one really big run (33 yds).
The defense (!!) really made Hill look like garbage, especially early in the game – it was essentially over before halftime.
This is the offensive game
we have needed and have been waiting for since the season started. Hopefully the O will keep firing on all cylinders and the defense will continue to gel.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. - Bill Shankly
by armchair quarterback on Oct 11, 2009 7:48 PM EDT reply actions
And we had an Eddie Royal sighting!
One of my favorite non-Falcons got the ball thrown to him and had 10 grabs for 90 yards. Whaddya know.
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wait...
are you a VPI guy? If so, that just will not do for us in the A. Looks like we need to start a “Move Dave to Atlanta” fund so that we can assimilate you into the hive.
"This is America, if we can’t self-righteously look down on others and blame them for our faults, the commies win."-----Cormican on Bleeding Green Nation w/r/t fans overreacting to the Eagles signing of Michael Vick
VPI?
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by Dave Choate on Oct 12, 2009 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions
Ah ha
No sir. University of New Hampshire.
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by Dave Choate on Oct 12, 2009 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh, that's cool
Cause it’s in Canada, or so I hear.
"This is America, if we can’t self-righteously look down on others and blame them for our faults, the commies win."-----Cormican on Bleeding Green Nation w/r/t fans overreacting to the Eagles signing of Michael Vick
Eh? I don't know what you're talking aboot
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hey, you forgot part of it
And State University…or something like that.
"This is America, if we can’t self-righteously look down on others and blame them for our faults, the commies win."-----Cormican on Bleeding Green Nation w/r/t fans overreacting to the Eagles signing of Michael Vick
A sign of a terrific coaching staff...
…is a team which plays like it had a bye week to prepare. The Falcons did everything they practiced and studied to perfection (and got help from a floundering, mistake-prone 49ers today to be sure).
It will be interesting to see how the Falcons do against the Bears next week, who themselves will be coming off a bye week.
The dynamic duo: Matt Ryan and Roddy White.
I hope so
Because we certianly didn’t get to him enough last season.
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Hope you're right...
…I’m concerned the D’line will return to the form of the other four games.
How many more days, Lord, must I walk throught the wilderness?
GO FALCONS!!!
My prediction was far off, but some of my keys were close :
Forty Niners have one great defense and will test Atlanta.
But they will miss Gore and Crabtree I think.
Keys for Atlanta :
Slow down Coffee
Target Gonzo
Keep running Burner
Involve Norwood
Force turnovers
I predict a hard fought 21 to 17 win by the Falcons
Is it conceivable
that the 49ers were overlooking the Falcons somehow, with their bye week coming up? The Falcons looked great, but the Niners seemed unfocused.
That win was glorious
…especially after trying to recover from the stinkbomb UGA put up yesterday.
Thank you, Falcons.
by get swoll yunel on Oct 11, 2009 8:30 PM EDT reply actions
I feel ya
The worst part is I have a hard time seeing the kind of turn around in this team that 2007’s pulled off after getting blasted by Tennessee. Plus, 0-1 against Lane Kiffin! Damnit.
At least I got to watch Ryan and the Falcons pound the 49ers. I hope we keep rolling until we can roll over the Saints in a couple weeks!
I'm a Nole...
This game helped heal me….lol
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I only lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
Elayne Boosler
GT ftw
Was that game ridiculous or what? I think there was a combined 13 td’s and over 1k total yards. Bajebus! And uga…wow, just wow. Hey, at least we can all revel in the Falcons win. Yay for us!
"This is America, if we can’t self-righteously look down on others and blame them for our faults, the commies win."-----Cormican on Bleeding Green Nation w/r/t fans overreacting to the Eagles signing of Michael Vick
Through
Can we be done questioning Blank, Dimitroff and Smith?
This is a contender team.
Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish — a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow — to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested...Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.
by iRonin on Oct 11, 2009 8:35 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
I question your lack of questioning
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I question your right to question the question on questioning....
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I only lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
Elayne Boosler
My reply:
200 yards receiving.
97 yards rushing.
Sacks. Turnovers.
Gonzalez, Peterson, Williams 2009 pickups.
Ryan, Lofton, Turner, Dahl, Biermann 2008 pickups still paying dividends.
Jenkins, Babineuax, White, resigns that are having an impact.
No other team can posts that kinda FO success, especially starting from Ground Zero
Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish — a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow — to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested...Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.
by iRonin on Oct 11, 2009 10:19 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
I think we all come in with our respective styles
The way this season has gone thus far has made a believer of me, but there’s always going to be that little demon poking me in the frontal lobe with a pitchfork until the day we get 9 wins this season. And so forth. Can’t really help it.
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by Dave Choate on Oct 11, 2009 10:51 PM EDT up reply actions
I question my question over question on...um...what?
I’ll officially stop questioning the management and coaching staffs when the Lombardi Trophy comes to the Falcons twice.
The real glory of being a Falcons fan, is that I just might be right with my whining. NE fans have to settle for their own personal mediocrity, because they can’t be superior to any facet of the Patriots!
How many more days, Lord, must I walk through the wilderness?
GO FALCONS!!!
Finally got to watch a Falcons game (dran CT)
Thank god (or whoever) for that magnificant website which i will be visiting every sunday, except next, primetime baby! Great game overall though, the selfish me wanted to see some more interceptions though. Shaun hill looked irate and was yelling furiously in the huddles with the stink face HAHAHA.
Also
What the hell was on Dre Bly’s noodle? That interception return was hilarious. The whole game was actually, for some strange reason i watched with a smile on my face.
That was one of the worst things I've ever seen
He’s going to get it this week.
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I could watch that all day
Low quality video here.
by tom slick on Oct 11, 2009 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Bly's quote after the game:
"Dre’s going to be Dre. When I make plays, and I’ve made a lot, I express myself."
Yeah, and your coach’s foot is going to express itself straight up your butt, you showboating moron.
by tom slick on Oct 11, 2009 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I couldn't have said it better myself
I don’t buy the excuse “but it’s just a game!” It’s a job for these guys, a job they’re getting paid untold millions to perform to the best of their ability. If Mike Singletary doesn’t gut him like a fish, color me stunned.
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by Dave Choate on Oct 11, 2009 10:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Tv coverage was awful.
Funny. When the Falcons got the interception on SF’s first possession, Fox’s play-by-play team was sucking some serious Niner-…um, showing lotsa love to anything SF did. When Turner crossed the goal line for Atlanta’s first touchdown, there was silence. Dead air. No one had anything prepared for Falcons productivity. I wish there wasn’t a five-second delay so I could listen to Wes and them instead of the bias on TV. The announcers’ man-love for Mike Singletary was so evident that it was the fourth quarter before the Falcons did anything right; it was obviously the Forty-niner players who weren’t responding to their coach…couldn’t have been anything Smitty and the Falcons were doing.
How many more days, Lord, must I walk throught the wilderness?
GO FALCONS!!!
Okay,I exagerate...
…they got some stuff written during halftime, since SF was obviously not going to return their infatuation.
How many more days, Lord, must I walk throught the wilderness?
GO FALCONS!!!
I agree
Every good thing Atlanta did all day was attributed to a failure of the 49ers. Yeah, SF looked out of sync, but that alone doesn’t account for the magnitude of the beating they received. The announcers basically bent over backwards to keep from acknowledging that the Birds might actually be a good team.
by Mountvillainy on Oct 11, 2009 9:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Fox coverage is always bad.
They were completely incompetent at the begining of the game. Not attributing the int to the tipped bal. Saying that Ryan was always looking down Gonzo, and relying on him as his no 1 recieving option. (Ryan averages throwing to 7 different targets this season, try looking at your stats sheet before you open your mouth)
by RamblininAlb on Oct 11, 2009 9:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Yea, Mike Peterson could have gotten a mention for that!
How many more days, Lord, must I walk through the wilderness?
GO FALCONS!!!
I watched part of it on mute -
Siragusa is that bad. Great game though. Roddy and Turner together again!
Holy Smokes.
This same 49ers team (with Gore) almost beat the Vikes.
I didn’t get to see the game (stinking FOX and people wanting money, etc. etc.) but I watched the highlights, and I have to say, I’m very, very impressed.
I’m a bit sad that Norwood didn’t get more touches (just from looking at the numbers) but Roddy White’s 90 yard TD was awesome. I don’t know if the flip was worth it (I won’t complain too much) but what a kick to the chest, eh?
After watching that game, I believe we can take on the Saints. Just a beautiful all-around effort against a good team (in their house AND on the west coast!)
moose johnston
the annoucer was just going on and on about how the 9er defense was like the 2000 ravens……ha! get a clue the falcons came ready!
Atlanta will win a championship....someday

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