Who Powered Through: Curtis Lofton Is A Tough One

by Dave Choate on Nov 18, 2010 6:01 AM EST in Who Powered Through

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Curtis Lofton is a familiar name on the team's weekly injury reports.

It seems our star linebacker is banged up, beat up, smacked up and screwed up nearly every week thus far in 2010, and yet there he is each and every gameday, wreaking the familiar havoc that Curtis Lofton so loves. It's consistency you can count on.

I've been impressed by the number of players who have returned early from injury or powered through it—Roddy White's sheer dominance against the Ravens despite his aches springs readily to mind—but it's especially gratifying to see one of the defense's quiet leaders doing it. Lofton hasn't putting up eye-popping numbers in 2010, but he's a tackling machine and every running back's worst nightmare when he gets a head of steam. Doing so with a host of minor leg injuries? More points from me!

So our sponsor likes Lofton. Got a player you think deserves credit for gritting it out?

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Matty Ice

The amount of times he has been put on his ass and the only time he had to slow down was when he gave Redman 1 snap.

Also Roddy White impresses me as he was hit by two Raven players after making the catch. He got slightly shaken up but the 2 Ravens defenders took alot longer to get up. He’s a beast

Please read Turner_The_Burner and my Best case/Worst case analysis of the upcoming week

by dunlagh on Nov 18, 2010 6:58 AM EST reply actions

I'm worried about Ryan

he’s been put to the ground or hit too many times, and we can’t risk losing him.
this Rams game will be tough, since (and I didn’t expect this) the Rams are among the league leaders in sacks. here’s hoping the good Turnelling shows up and helps Ryan.

but I agree with your post – both Ryan and Roddy deserve at least an honorable mention, if not the award itself.

Atlanta Falcons fan in Moscow, Russia

by Gemini-RU on Nov 18, 2010 8:07 AM EST up reply actions

What about Finn?

For battling through the age, which can be worse than injury at times

by FLA_Falcon on Nov 18, 2010 8:59 AM EST via mobile reply actions 1 recs

What about the SBNation readers?

For battling through sponsored posts to find the usual awesome posts we’ve come to expect from the front page writing staff. I kid, White deserves it for me because he knows he’s going to be double covered and he uts up the numbers anyway.

Check out this week's Falcons best case/worst case article here.

by Turner_The_Burner on Nov 18, 2010 10:19 AM EST reply actions

I know the sponsored posts are feeling like overkill

I’m trying to stagger them as much as I can, but here we are. My apologies, sponsored by Apologex.

by Dave Choate on Nov 18, 2010 11:52 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs

just for the apologex joke, it's all good

Check out this week's Falcons best case/worst case article here.

by Turner_The_Burner on Nov 18, 2010 8:28 PM EST up reply actions

Don't bite the hand...

by orion12 on Nov 18, 2010 2:50 PM EST up reply actions

that feeds us!!

Georgia Native, Indiana Resident, and Falcon Loving S.O.B.
Yeah, thats me.

by ATLsince1972 on Nov 18, 2010 5:01 PM EST up reply actions

He is probably our Defensive MVP this Season!

He has more game changing plays this season compared to last year.

It's all about Process...

by Vishnu_falcon on Nov 18, 2010 10:13 PM EST reply actions

More Sponsors?

Do they think we’ll just look at them and buy their product when we already know they exist?
Like someone on Youtube said…when buying a Corvette, a person usually has made up their mind to buy one with a blank check written out. Selling elements isn’t needed.

When you see a person smile, it really doesn't mean anything, unless they are smiling from within...which can be difficult to detect.

by brotherbrown on Nov 18, 2010 11:36 PM EST reply actions