I feel like Ryan rarely has a pocket. Maybe a screen pass or bootleg would work, because it is hard to throw well without any space.

holding call on Peterson ( on Bush) with about seven minutes to go. That call gave New Orleans a first down instead of punting. The one horrible call in a game where the replays got the calls right.

The Saints definitely earned that win. Great ground game, opportunitic defense.

The passing game was the real kicker though. Brees got a lot of praise in the booth (and he was great), but their receivers just killed out there. You can’t hold our secondary too accountable for it – when you have guys making crazy catches like the Saints receivers did ALL NIGHT, there’s not much you can do to stop it. It’s like trying to defned the fade-away jumper when someone’s really got it working – you just can’t. Got to tip the hat to the Saints.

Proud of our team though. We’ll be at that level when Ryan takes those next few steps with his game – not a question of if, just a question of when.

the falcons did. you cant beat great teams, even good teams for that matter if you cant take advantage of their mistakes. the falcons got 4 turnovers from their defense. resulting in 3 points and actually gave the saints 7. you can’t drop sure first down passes, you cant miss easy field goals that 51 yarder we knew was pushing his range and is a hard kick for anyone. you cant miss tackles especially drive ending tackles. their first touchdown should have been 3.

good things, does anyone else wanna hear what mike smith said to his defense at halftime, i sure do. turner came back in the biggest of ways, that 4 qrt run was remarkable. the falcons punched the saints in the mouth all second half and showed this team wont stay perfect this year.

side notes – turner is not a screen RB, reggie bush and norwood are turner is not, i do think we should roll the pocket more but teams are starting to pick up on that call. watch the replays and you see ryan usually throws underneath or out of bounds when he rolls out. the latter happens because defense ends have watched film and saw us kill the dolphins with this and have started grabbin that underneath release. which isn’t a penalty because he is within five yards. Funniest thing all game had to be the grimes interception, i watched it like 10 times after it happened and i don’t think he knew he could jump that high. watch as he is falling you see him try to plant that left leg into the grass to start a return but he was way to up there and he falls on his face, amazing catch but hilarious all the same.

Grimes had a good game last night. Had that highlight pick, plus solid tackling throughout, and he seemed to stay in his receiver’s hip pocket. He’s a monster athelete. I wonder if he can figure out how to out-atheleticize the guys who are out-big-guying him right now. Not sure if that’s even possible? It sounds good though.

All we had to do was execute and we could have beaten NO. While there were some really crappy calls and some bad tackling we only gave up 7 points to NO in the second half. Whom else has done that this year?

We essentially gave the game to NO. Ryan threw three INT’s and one that went for a TD right before half time (-7) and another at the goal line near the end of the game (-7). Jenkins dropped a 3rd down pass that would have given us a first and goal. Based on our redzone offense this year that proabably would have scored a TD instead of missing a field goal but I’ll take the lesser of the points for the arguement (-3). Elam then missed another field goal (-3). That is easily a 20 point turn around. You can always argue that no points are a gaurantee, okay let’s say we got half of those points, 10, then we could have won the game by two points. Yeah, I know, no gaurantees.

The odd thing is that Ryan threw 3 INT’s during the best game that Turner has had so far this season.

What is boils down to is that this was a win-able game that we threw away, literally. Teams that know how to win don’t play this way. They take advantage of opportunities and drive the ball down their opponents throats.

Falcons played tough and well enough to win

Only a few bad calls kept us from victory

The Elam situation seems simple enough to solve. If he hits them in practice, he should hit them in games — he’s not going to get rattled like a rookie would. If he’s not making them in practice, for whatever reason, then we need to find a new kicker.

Tough game, it was a nail biter all the way down to the wire, just wanted to say good job to you guys.

Bad calls….I agree with the bad call of holding for that Reggie pass….I think it was called on the wrong person, just to the right of Reggie was Marques Colston and your CB was holding the sh*& out of him before the ball was in the air….Roddy white in the endzone had both players looking at the ball and tripping over each other. And just to throw it out there, you all know that was a hella big push off from White on Jabari greer for that 68 yarder he had. The broadcasters called it and we all saw it, made greer stumble two feet towards the hash marks.

That being said, calls went both ways, for us and against us and it was damn good game, tough and down to the wire, see you guys in a few weeks