A Very Falcoholic Discussion: What Would You Ask Thomas Dimitroff?

by Dave Choate on Apr 20, 2009 8:00 AM EDT in Editorial

If you want to try to beat out the crush of inquiries already zipping their way through cyberspace, know that you can actually ask Thomas Dimitroff questions by visiting the Official Site . I'd encourage you to make the attempt, as I'd love to see one of you guys get your questions answered. Here's a pro tip: Don't ask him where he lives.

For the rest of us, I think it's worth asking what you would ask the good Comrade if you had only one question to ask. Would it be about his draft plans? Would it be his feeling on the strength of the young secondary? Would it be whether he uses hair gel or a bolt of lightning to get his hair like that?

Leave them in the comments, folks.

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I'd waste the opportunity and ask him

something about his old playing days.

"If the Falcons ever manage to win a Super Bowl in my lifetime, I'll french kiss a toilet." - a friend.

by Adam Schultz on Apr 20, 2009 8:07 AM EDT reply actions

Not who he is gonna draft...

You know, all the top questions over there have to deal with the draft and the Tony Gonzalez trade – he ain’t gonna answer that (thankfully). It’s hard to come up with a question that he would actually answer until after the draft (i.e. what was it you saw in so-and-so that made them your first pick?).

I’d go with something like “what made you become a vegetarian, and how come you stopped being a vegan?” That’s an extremely interesting fact about my man, the Comrade.

by TomQ on Apr 20, 2009 8:52 AM EDT reply actions

Whats the deal with the hair

"When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something"

-Dick Butkus

by zooker on Apr 20, 2009 10:16 AM EDT reply actions

Does He believe James Laurenitis can play OLB....

Still beating the dead horse, for another 5 days anyway….

"We're not maxed out, ... The best is still ahead of us."

Bobby Bowden

by NaGaNole on Apr 20, 2009 10:32 AM EDT reply actions

Can you recommend a hair pomade?

Reporter: How will you address all of the dropped passes?

Mike Smith: I don’t think that we were as sharp as we have been catching the football. It’s something that is very fixable. It’s VERY fixable.

by FrankyWren on Apr 20, 2009 11:35 AM EDT reply actions

I don't want FOP!

I’m a DapperDan man!!

by orang3b on Apr 20, 2009 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions

AMAZING movie ... one of my favorites actually

Reporter: How will you address all of the dropped passes?

Mike Smith: I don’t think that we were as sharp as we have been catching the football. It’s something that is very fixable. It’s VERY fixable.

by FrankyWren on Apr 20, 2009 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions

I detect, like me, you're endowed with the gift of gab.

by Dave Choate on Apr 20, 2009 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions

I would ask...

What really happened with Spy-gate

by TheFranchiseis#2 on Apr 20, 2009 5:19 PM EDT reply actions

Long time no see

Where you been, man?

by Dave Choate on Apr 20, 2009 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions

not good

my comp has had so many problems over the last couple of months. recently it stopped reading my hard drive so right now Ive had to dust off my old hp comp and pray the ram is sufficient to run the internet. really pissin me off

by TheFranchiseis#2 on Apr 21, 2009 7:26 PM EDT up reply actions

thanks Franchise

for answering my question.

I just watched the

at :45 – 1:18 TD basically just announced that he wants Pettigrew. I could be very wrong about this, but that’s how it sounded to me.

That small statement also gives me faith that we have a new OT in our future.

by MentallyMIA on Apr 22, 2009 1:00 AM EDT reply actions

that last message was supposed to say

“I just watched the TD interview”

and it was supposed to give a link to the site where it said “TD interview” – not sure why the link didn’t post.

Anyways, here’s the address. http://www.atlantafalcons.com/media_library/Videos/Executive_Interviews_and_Press_Conferences/2009/4/One-on-one_GM_Thomas_Dimtroff_-4-21-09.aspx
library/Videos/Executive_Interviews_and_Press_Conferences/2009/4/One-on-one_GM_Thomas_Dimtroff_-_4-21-09.aspx">Or click here

by MentallyMIA on Apr 22, 2009 1:01 AM EDT up reply actions

I dunno what's up with the HTML input here

whatever… it may be jacked up, but that’s the link

by MentallyMIA on Apr 22, 2009 1:02 AM EDT up reply actions

hhmmm

id be happy with Pettigrew. we need defense but this would put our offense over the top. but this would necessitate thhe rest of the picks being defense.

by TheFranchiseis#2 on Apr 22, 2009 1:09 AM EDT up reply actions

I think I've got to disagree with you

While he certainly sounds like he’s hedging his bets in case they go offense, I didn’t see that as a clear admission that Pettigrew is the top target. It’s just Dimitroff doing what he does, which is to take a pad of butter and spread it out over the entire piece of bread. Getting a specific answer out of the guy is darn near impossible, and I’m okay with that.

That said, I still don’t want Pettigrew to be the pick there.

by Dave Choate on Apr 22, 2009 1:29 AM EDT up reply actions

I agree its not the most prefered pick

I just think it is a very high likelyhood.

Not my top choice… but I don’t think I’d complain if certain other players weren’t on the board and Pettigrew was and that’s where our pick went.

I like the butter reference. He buttered a whole loaf during that interview. It was very entertaining to watch his highly intellectual usage of the english language while managing to tell us virtually nothing.

by MentallyMIA on Apr 22, 2009 9:05 AM EDT up reply actions

Well, it is a no man's land

If Pettigrew is far and away the best player there, then I guess you’ve gotta pull the trigger.

by Dave Choate on Apr 22, 2009 10:47 AM EDT up reply actions

I thought

It was interesting that he mentioned possibly focusing more on the early rounds, for “impact” players. (I think the question was about trading later round picks to move up). He said something like he felt there were plenty of back-up level players, but he was looking for difference-makers…

by orang3b on Apr 22, 2009 8:19 AM EDT reply actions

And difference makers are what we need

We need guys who are going to swing a hammer ASAP after they’re drafted. I don’t expect Dimitroff to stick with the safe picks early on or maybe at all, which is kind of an interesting prospect.

by Dave Choate on Apr 22, 2009 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions