I was pleasantly surprised by the defense. keep the turnovers coming.

the offense played well against a defense that contained turner. they could have easily had 2 more TD’s..

That is all.

It was amazing how much better playing zone made the secondary look…

The Dolphin defense played 8 in the box a lot, and lots of run blitzes when Turner was in. It wasn’t like he was stuttering through the holes. They did a good job of defending him, and making Ryan beat them. I hope teams try more of that. The only reason we didn’t win by 20 points was Ryan’s timing off on some throws. I chalk that up to this being the first game if the year, he’ll get that worked out.

Makes you wonder if ole coach Smith was hiding the true defense in the preseason!! LOL
 But then i remember we were playing against the dolphins with pennington at QB, cuz he looked really rattled in the 3rd and beginning of the 4th qtrs. The only time he looked good was when we were giving them the underneath stuff late in the 4th qtr.
Also, our o-line needs to get better, matty ice was picking himself up a lot this game!!
I’ll have more later, but I like being 1-0!
lets go FALCONS!!
L-DAWG

1) We can win even if Turner is having a tough game. Ryan played efficient and turnover free. He generally made the correct read and threw the ball, for the most part, only where our receivers could make a play. He was a little erratic on his downfield passing, but Ryan was the player of the game offensively, even if Tony caught the most passes and had a nice touchdown run.

2) Our defense is FAST. It’s one game, but boy did our guys collapse on the ball quickly. Pennington can’t throw the ball vertically well, and we did an awesome job getting to the ball the second it was out of his hands in the flats. Really a sense of urgency today.

3) Our pass rush was tremendous. That pocket collapsed around Pennington all game. Jerry and Babs really did a great job stuffing things in the middle and also getting into the backfield. Abraham as always demonstrated his athletic ability (how ‘bout when he bulldozed Jake Long to get to Pennington for his first sack?) Finally, you can’t say enough positive things about Kroy Biermann. The guy flat out does not stop until the whistle blows. Yet another diamond out of last year’s draft class.

I’m a phins fan and would like to congratulate you guys on your win. You guys will have a good year

It’s just one game (and Miami didn’t bring their ‘A" game IMO), but what an encouraging start! The offense will be fine. The D wasn’t tested by a rifle armed QB but played beyond most peoples’ expectations. Nice LB play indeed; it sure looks like losing Brooking and Boley may have been a pretty canny move. Woo hoo!

Jake “The Mistake” Delhomme is starting for the kitty cats next week. Let’s hope we can keep his turnover streak alive.

Very surprised at how well the secondary held up. Love the Linebacker play. Jerry is a beast! would like to see matty hook up with some of those easy touchdown’s he over threw early in the game.

Now that is the way to play solid smash mouth defense! We forced turnovers today by playing physical and that is something we need to do all year and the D will be ok.. It’s only one game and Brees threw 6 tds today. Looks like they are going to be our main competition for the division. Carolina was horrible and hopefully will be next week too..Turner got stuffed today but credit the Dolphins front line. They played solid against the run and forced us to beat them with the passing game witch Ryan did great at. Timing off on a few passes but no major mistakes or turnovers and it was only the first game of the year. Gonzalez and Peterson MVPs on offense and defense. Bierman, Abraham, Lofton also stood out and the much aligned secondary played good solid football today, although Houston still looks lost out there from time to time.. Can only hope things get even better as the season goes on for the D. Only concern was the kicking game..Missing extra points and short field goals? Not Elam like so hoping this is just a temporary fluke.. Overall great solid start to the season. Great job defense!

Mike Peterson

Thanks for jerking us around last year to squeeze a few extra bucks out of the Dolphins, Tuna!

Looks like you might have done us a favor by making Arthur keep looking for a GM, you greedy old fart.

Love,
Atlanta

I’m a big fan of Norwood, just to let everyone know where I’m coming from, but on a day when Michael Turner faced extremely tough sledding all day, I think Jerious needs to get more than 2 carries. Yes, the 5 receptions were great, and ended up as our second leading receiver, but 3 of those receptions were dump-offs where the play wasn’t exactly designed to go to him.

I mean, it’s tough to criticize the offense following a win (especially since we should have 26 points) but the man is a weapon, and I’d hate for our running game to become one dimensional. It’s gotten to the point where defenses should be picking up that Norwood is almost exclusively playing on passing downs.

I just think that Norwood is one of the better back-ups in the league, and deserves more carries than he’s been getting since the early part of last year. I see 5 carries a game as a minimum, rather than a bonus.

But why was Trey Lewis inactive? All of the other inactives I understand, but I would’ve liked to have seen him out there over Booker, for instance.

The passing attack (36 attempts vs 27 carries) looked to be part of the game plan even before the Dolphins proved they could hold Turner in check, but a lot of the times personnel package was: White, Jenkins, Tony G, Peelle, and Norwood – lined up in several different formations. I just don’t understand why Booker was kept active over Lewis if he wasn’t going to be used (and I may have missed him, but I don’t remember seeing him on the field at all)…

good job guys atl is for real