The Falcoholic Predicts The Atlanta Falcons 53 Man Roster
by Dave Choate on Aug 31, 2010 4:00 PM EDT
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PrintOh yes, it's that time of year again.
I noticed some of you getting out in the comments yesterday and really thinking about what the final roster might be. I don't want to be accused of waiting until the last second to get mine in, so here we are. How exciting!
In all honesty, the roster I'm submitting for your consideration today isn't significantly different than the one I posted back in late May.A couple of circumstances have changed in the meantime and I clearly had too much faith in Matt Giordano, but there's no indication that we're in for one of those moments where Mike Smith cackles evilly and releases Michael Turner into a pit of vipers.
You'll find my best guess after the jump. Keep this thread in mind for later this week, so you can return and taunt me if I get everything wrong.
QB Matt Ryan
QB Chris Redman
QB John Parker Wilson
RB Michael Turner
RB Jerious Norwood
RB Jason Snelling
RB Antone Smith
FB Ovie Mughelli
WR Roddy White
WR Michael Jenkins
WR Harry Douglas
WR Brian Finneran
WR Eric Weems
TE Tony Gonzalez
TE Justin Peelle
TE Michael Palmer
T Tyson Clabo
T Sam Baker
T Garrett Reynolds
T Will Svitek
G Justin Blalock
G Harvey Dahl
G Mike Johnson
C Todd McClure
C Joe Hawley
DE John Abraham
DE Kroy Biermann
DE Lawrence Sidbury
DE Chauncey Davis
DE/DT Jamaal Anderson
DT Peria Jerry
DT Jon Babineaux
DT Vance Walker
DT Corey Peters
DT Trey Lewis
OLB Stephen Nicholas
OLB Sean Weatherspoon
OLB Mike Peterson
MLB Curtis Lofton
MLB Spencer Adkins
CB Dunta Robinson
CB Chris Owens
CB Brent Grimes
CB Dominique Franks
CB Chevis Jackson
FS Thomas DeCoud
SS Erik Coleman
SS William Moore
S Shann Schillinger
K Matt Bryant/Kris Brown
P Michael Koenen
LS Joe Zelenka
PRACTICE SQUAD
S Rafael Bush
RB Dmitri Nance
WR Brandyn Harvey
LB Bear Woods
WR Ryan Wolfe
S Shann Schillinger
TE Keith Zinger
OL Blake Schlueter
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by Ball Hawk on Aug 31, 2010 4:05 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
I’d be fine with this, but I just can’t see us spending a roster spot on a fourth running back even if Snelling backs up both the RB and FB spots. That, and having Shann Schillinger on both the active roster and practice team…
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Bear Woods will make this team
or else………
Moisture is the essence of wetness.
by troy145 on Aug 31, 2010 4:57 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
One question for Bear Woods
Does the Bear shit in the woods?
Keeping Woods is a “bear necessity”
He’s always open. He catches a lot of balls. He’s un-guardable, no matter how old he is
Look for the Bear Necessities
The Simple Bear Necessities
Forget about your worries and your strifes.
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Don't bet against this roster
I’d love to see the Rushin’ Russian and Bear Woods on the team just for nickname value, though. Amazing how few changes there are from 2009 (is that good or bad?)
I think it's good ...
You can’t put a price tag on team chemistry. Well, if they’d let, and if I were rich, I guess I would … but I digress.
Team Chemistry
Is onsale now on QVC for 4 payments of only $39.99. If you act now, they’ll also include a Falcons tote bag.
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by Jman781 on Aug 31, 2010 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
few changes + a few key acquisitions = continued progress
and when your team is “rebuilding” and in the third year of the process, you definitely cannot complain about that position.
At least we aren’t in the “addition by subtraction boat”
know what you believe in and why you believe in it
I wonder how our low turnover compares
to the Patriots’ while they rebuilt that team. I’m a little surprised that a team that’s been rebuilding only 2+ years, is able to more or less stand pat outside of one major FA addition at CB (and perhaps a decent draft).
Maybe that’s just how the league is this year, with the labor situation hanging over everyone’s heads.
I was going to ask the same question...
As far as I know, he’s still with the Texans. He’ll be cut soon enough, but do we want the Texans’ leftovers? I guess we have the Bucs’ leftovers right now…
"You can't print what I said, but they have to catch us." - Chipper Jones
When both their kickers are arguably better than the one we have
Then yes. Yes we do.
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Kris Brown was really awful last year. I don’t closely follow AFC kicker injuries, but there’d have to have been something documented last year for me to cut Bryant in favor of Brown this year.
And going back, he's had a couple other years that weren't stellar
I get that. But look at 2008 and 2007 and you’ll see he was pretty damn close to stellar. Not only that, but he’s 74-109 from 40+ yards and 18-33 from 50+. His leg is, to put it simply, better than Bryant’s.
But we’re arguing over table scraps here, either way. I wish the Falcons didn’t have to settle for something just north of mediocrity at the position.
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I remember the kick
he missed against Tennessee at home.
Kris Brown is a Choker.
We need someone reliable like John Kasay, and Rob Bironas.
But of course teams aren’t stupid to let them go.
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by brotherbrown on Aug 31, 2010 8:37 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm unusually argumentative tonight
So I’m going to pick this one up.
It seems to me that we’re all very quick to jump on labels. One injured season for Peria Jerry and he’s a bust. One bad season for Kris Brown, and one particularly memorable bad kick, and he’s a choker. One drop from Roddy White…okay, bad example.
I think we have to keep the big picture in mind at all times. It’s not a significant difference, but Kris Brown made more of his kicks in 2008 and 2007 than Matt Bryant. In very limited opportunities, Bryant’s percentage wasn’t noticeably higher than Brown’s last year.
But back up the picture even more and you’ll see that while a year older, Bryant has a better percentage overall than Kris Brown…and it’s a nearly 4% gain. So maybe we don’t want Kris Brown, after all. I’ve just argued myself back around to another perspective.
In all honesty, we’re probably going with Bryant. It’s extremely likely. But I could see the Falcons kicking the tires on Kris Brown, Neil Rackers, or someone else. Being human just like us, they probably saw Bryant whiff on that extra point and started to wonder.
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Sadly, it appears so
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Well I wasn’t trying to bash him for just that one kick.
But I swear I’ve seen him miss more than that kick, and other similiar.
If you can’t make a kick when it counts, you are a choker. There isn’t any question about it. Until Kris Brown makes clutch kicks I’ll change my opinion.
Sure he probably makes 95% of his kicks. But that’s like winning the first 18 games of the season and losing the 19th, and that’s never a good idea.
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by brotherbrown on Sep 1, 2010 9:05 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
you are unusually right tonight also. chill out people, its only preseason still… calm down take a deep breath!
Unusually right?
Is this a dagger I see before me?
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Where are
Matt Prater and Jay Feely when you need them?…
"You can't print what I said, but they have to catch us." - Chipper Jones
We don't need them
They were chokers too
Remember Feely missed those kicks with the Jets to let US win.
And Prater was a Petrino issue.
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So why Smith over Nance
And there is no way jackson makes it over Williams. I know it’s the old debate but no way.
Smith because he's got a lot more experience in this system
And this would be a team hedging its bets against Jerious Norwood getting injured. Antone Smith offers a similar skillset, and if Norwood was seriously injured, then the team could just bring Nance on board to help out.
Tell me why you think Jackson is going to get cut in favor of Williams. The thing Williams is arguably best at is helping out against the run, and Jackson is, my opinion, A) better and B) considerably younger.
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Well Williams
has more experience, is more solid than Jackson, and is versatile (CB and FS). If Jackson was better than Williams why didn’t he take over the position last year instead of them bringing in Williams? I can see the argument for Owens but Jackson is slow with less skill set.
I don't really value experience
When it doesn’t come attached to superior talent.
I can see we’re at a stalemate with this particular debate, so I’ll just lay out my perspective here. If Brian Williams can play safety, so can Jackson. In fact, there’s a reasonable argument to be made that Jackson should play safety, given the fact that he’s a very capable tackler but struggles in coverage.
And who knows why Jackson didn’t take it last year? Certainly the coaching staff didn’t feel he was ready, but you also have to take the scope back and realize Mike Smith was going for a guy he knew and was comfortable in with Williams. What that got us was maybe two good games, a handful of middling games and then an injury. Jackson’s clearly no superman, but I’d rather have the young guy with some kind of upside as our fourth or fifth cornerback than a 31-year-old who was just average in 2009.
But again, we’ll probably have to agree to disagree on this issue. I feel very strongly that teams should strive to cultivate young talent at the expense of older, similar talent.
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by Dave Choate on Aug 31, 2010 9:04 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Plus consider
To my memory, Jackson & Schillinger have been the gunners early in games in this pre-season (the “first team” punt coverage, if you will). I seriously doubt Williams would be used in that role, and a #4 CB that offers no Special Teams value is frankly a waste of roster space…
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by orang3b on Sep 1, 2010 9:10 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
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I guess the good thing about this discussion
is that we actually have talent on the team that we can debate about. A good problem to have if we only have to point out 1 or 2 people in back up roles.
by Fear Me on Sep 1, 2010 9:40 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I don’t understand the hate for Chevis. Wasn’t Grimes and Owens burned for a few before they got good?
Put Chevis out there until he gets it right.
He just haven’t had enough practice.
Put him in the fire like Matt Ryan was. That’s the ONLY way he’ll get it.
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No arguments here
With your guess of the Big 5-3
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No arguments here either
Though I’d prefer NOT to see Matt Bryant’s name. Remember when the team used to use Koenen for long yardage kicks? What happened to that?
Didn't work out by week 2
Although in hindsight by the way the 2006 season ended.
I would have liked to see the staff stick with it.
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My roster is almost identical
but I have Dan Klecko making the team, and I say we don’t keep Smith. Also. Coy Wire will make the team.
Seem's Like A Lock
But I would like to think Bear Woods makes the team…that’s a name that just sounds good on the D…“Oh my! Bear with the Grizzley hit on Brees!” Lol…just a thought
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by Dirtybyrdatl4life on Sep 1, 2010 10:31 AM EDT reply actions
Wouldn't it be cool..
If he had two brothers playing named Lionel and Tiger?…oh wait…maybe not Tiger.
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