I feel like many of our offensive woes can be healed by a better running game. Yeah, Ryan didn’t have his greatest day, but, frankly, it is hard for any 2nd year QB to do well when the only time he is throwing is on 3rd and long. We need to settle down about Snelling. Did he have a good game? Yes. However, he also seemed to have better holes than turner, probably because when Turner is in, they expect him to get the ball. All in all, I am confident that our coaching staff can fix this.

Further, this is also an example of playing a team coming off its bye week. Dallas was well rested and well prepared, whereas Atlanta was coming off a physical, nail-biting win. They are going to look bad against a well rested team.

1) Why didn’t Tye Hill play? If he’s good then he’ll be out there?
2) What is it about our offense that isn’t clicking? Is there one area that needs work or is it everything? Is it personnel?
3) Is it me or have we been looking like a middle of the road team.

Let’s be honest, we’re already playing for a wildcard spot.

turner isn’t getting it done, but who is this season? We know for a fact turner shouldn’t be ran into the ground till he’s begging for mercy before somebody fills in for him. This is a two back league now.

Macon, GA… I see the falcons everyweek, so I keep up with them. If it wasn’t for Tony Dorsett, I may have been a bird fan. Good Luck on the season WARLOCK.(and your picks)

I am no NFL coach, but I have a pretty simple idea for maybe freeing up Turner (whop I stated myself, is having problems). Go with split backs in the backfield. Since Snelling has shown he can run laterally, and Turner is primarily up the middle, defenses won’t know where the ball is going, and have to respect both backs. Switch up WR and TE formations as well, to either spread or condense the defense, and run the ball in all directions.

Throw some spread formations in there, and see how the defense lines up. From there let Matt Ryan call the plays.

offensive execution. We’ve played two good teams this year and had our collective butts kicked by wide margins. We have not been able to play any kind of sustained ball control offense. For our defense to be successful we have to eat up the clock. It’s really odd that Ryan is put into so many second and long situations. As the running game gets poorer his pass are getting shorter, seemingly anyway.

Also, we put little pressure on Romo even with blitzes. That has to change in order to help our DB’s.

OK here’s the problem. We are averaging the same amount of yards per carry as we were last year or at least close. So to say that our running attack is failing is not entirely true. Burner was able to let off big gains last year because no one knew about him. Last game didn’t work because we didn’t run hardly any no huddle plays. When we run the no huddle we keep the defense off balance. We did it against Chicago and it worked to beauty. we have 7 more days till Monday night football so I’m not worried at all. Regardless that it is the Saints. Cowboys beat us on big plays and Matty missed a few receivers.

As far as Turner your right he is timid hitting the whole. Personally I think we need to run a little bit more screen plays with Turner and have Snelling as the guy hitting the whole. Also throw in some more Three lined up receivers on one side such as how we scored on the opening drive.

Finally our defensive side. We have to get pressure pressure and more pressure. Mix up blitz packages and always bring 5 men rushing. Mike Peterson needs to cover the tight end and Curtis Lofton needs to cover the running back. Move Abraham to the other side on third down situations so he is on the side of the starting receiver we can avoid bigger plans with a mix up in blitz. Do we run the risk of a big run? Sure but, New Orleans has always been about passing. Not running the ball. You put pressure on Brees and keep him offbalanced and big plays will open up.

He needs as many carries as Turner does a game. I know the Falcons have too much invested in Turner to turn him into a backup, but he can’t be relied on anymore. Time to get Snelling and Turner into a dual back system.

Once again, our mini-me corners get exploited when they are forced to defend receiver that are over 6 feet.

Jerry just gave him an ext.(Press conference at 4:30) I guess Miles Austin is next in line or maybe Brookings.

Of what happens when you look past an opponent. I’m sure the Saints match was circled and was a big focus throughout the week knowing they could’ve been at the top of NFC and in position for a by at the midway point through the season.

“Any given Sunday…” holds true here.

-I don’t think Matt Ryan has been this bad EVER.

-Chevis Jackson got beat worse than Rihanna.

-Grimes is like the size of my 6 year old little sister and proved ONCE AGAIN HE CANNOT COVER RECEIVERS over 6 ft. tall.

-Sophomore slump isn’t even a fair assessment of Turner. As a matter of fact its an embarassment to sophomore slumpers. Only Larry Johnson comes to mind when thinking about RB’s who have produced LESS this season.

-Turner isn’t as hungry as he was last year.Maybe he feels like he’s proven himself. He isn’t hungry, and I don’t think anyone can prove that he is. Snelling on the other hand is making a statement everytime he touches the ball. I’d bench Turner against N.O

-It’s been a while since I can remember the defense having such a poor showing on tackling.

We know who the Cowboys are. A team that needed an overtime blown tackle to beat the one-dimensional Chiefs, and we couldn’t even keep the game close against these people. I don’t mind losing, but its the way we lost that upset me.

After this performance and N.O’s comeback I’m sure N.O will steamroll us for sure. If were lucky we might make a game of it the first two quarters with the way were producing.

Outside of the San Fran game the offense has been anemic. I don’t understand. Pro Bowl TE & WR , Pro Bowl RB, solid back ups at each position minus TE imo, one of the best O-line’s in the NFC (maybe top 5 in the NFL) and we can’t dial it up on offense and have our way with the defense.On paper there isn’t much difference the Falcons and Texans on offense outside of productivity.

I agree that we should increase snellings carries, you always ride the hothand on your team. If snellings producing and turners not then coach smith has got to know when to say enough is enough and start snelling and bring in turner as the backup, thats one hell of a backup running back!! lol
I’m hoping that the saints had such a tough comeback victory that they assume that they will win monday nites game just by showing up(with the way we’re playing-it could be true!!) and we roll into NO and just jump on them quick and don’t let them get back up!!

LETS GO FALCONS!!
L-DAWG

So just maybe the team will make it back to the playoffs this year again and win this time around.

Remember that Turner never was a full time back with the Chargers. He seems to be holding back in my eyes. Maybe he is hurt.

unless we just fall apart completely as a team!! Here’s why- Say the 4 division winners are the Giants, Saints, vikings, and the Cards. Now there are 2 wildcard spots, who’s left to compete for those 2 spots?- Falcons, Dallas, Philly, packers,and Chicago(maybe). So what record will it take to beat out 3 of those 4 teams to get in? I would say 10-6 will do it. Right now we are 4-2, we’ve got pretty much a given 4 or 5 wins- tampa(2), washington, carolina, buffalo. That puts us at 9 wins, now all we really have to do is win A game against the saints, giants, philly, or the jets. Especially if we beat philly or the giants then we’re in for sure cuz of the head to head tiebreaker- which dallas now holds over us – so I am assuming they will be the other wildcard team. But as of right now out of the 4 teams we are competing with we have the best record, except dallas,once again I assume they make it also. So we just have to keep winning the games we are supposed to win and get a couple of wins against the better teams we will play this season. I say we split with NO and we beat the eagles, BOOM we’re in the playoffs-taadaah!!!!

NEED TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They got toasted. Why doesn’t smith and company do something about it????

if we are going to win next week. The saints have forced 18 turnovers so far, thats 3 PER GAME!! If we had forced that many TO’s we would be 6-0 as well, so we CANNOT lose the TO battle against the aints if we are to win. Especially cuz it is AT NO we can’t cough up the ball to them, it is very hard to beat them at the superdome, much less if we’re giving their offense extra possessions. We won’t be able to keep up with them if we turnover the ball to them, we must GET turnovers and GET the extra offensive possessions in order to beat them at their house!! If we win the turnover battle I think we can beat them in their house!! What do you guys think????

LETS GO FALCONS!!
L-DAWG

One thing I’ve noticed is that Adrian Peterson’s numbers are down a bit, too. He’s still blasting over people, but there’s one important thing that separates AP from Turner at this point.

AP’s rushing numbers are in the dumps (at least a few times this year they have been), just like Turner’s. However, AP is catching passes out of the backfield for an amount equal to or greater than the number of yards he is rushing for, and that’s why the Vikes are still winning.

Think about that for a second. It’s been mentioned on the falcoholic a lot recently that we’re not throwing any screens, RB dumps, etc. Maybe that’s really what we’re missing. I know Turner isn’t AP, but he could still do it if they’d run the darn plays. Maybe that’s all we need to do to get Turner in a groove. It’s been working for AP when he’s been running into wall-like D-lines. Somebody get me Mularkey’s phone number!

The TD Weems had out of the backfield was perfect. The formation for that was perfect. I LOVE the idea of having backs running wheel/go routes out of the backfield. When you have someone as explosive as Weems back there, chances are a LB is going to be keying on him, and any route he runs at that point is going to be open. Even if a nickel back is in there watching him, I think it’d be safe to say he could beat most nickel backs in the league.

I really do like Eric Weems, too. And I’m proud of our team for not quitting (completely) even after we were down several scores. I’m also proud of them for not celebrating like idiots after Weems’s touchdown. It was a bit bittersweet, but still glad to see the team didn’t lose its composure, never mind that they didn’t show up except for three drives.

Also also wik: I will never understand why people like RomoHomo come running their mouths onto this board. I really appreciate people like Terry who posted in this thread who kept it clean and cool. I’ve never been one to start trash talk, however I will return fire if it’s started about my (our) team. I’ve always believed that every team has had a crappy game or has been down in the dumps and as a fan I know what it’s like to have shaky faith in your team at times and I’m not gonna hate on you if we just stomped (or squeaked by) your team, especially if it was ugly because I’m not a blithering buffoon and I have a little understanding. But that’s the Internet for ya. Everyone tries to be better than you at all times. It’s sad, really.

What I really hate are fans who storm into boards and act like they won the game by themselves. Absolutely classless.

Has everyone completely forgot jerious norwood helped with turner’s yardage last year? He was the reason turner didn’t carry the ball 400 times

tripping on turner because some people have him on their fantasy team.