Ask A (apparently jersey stealing) Bird!

Whiz definitely wants to run the ball more with Beanie and Hightower but our line and backs have had some issues. Communication with the line is still shaky with Levi Brown switching from LT to RT, Brandon Keith starting and the new addition of Faneca. Hopefully as they improve so will our run game. Another issue is putting the ball on the ground. Hightower had two extremely untimely fumbles with one in the redzone and one when we were icing the clock after what should have been a game ending INT. Beanie has also had some issues.
It’s also tough to pass when you have Fitz, Breaston and Doucet in your WR stable. All three can make big plays.

The feeling is mutual on our boards.
Why did we let go of Q? Many of us are asking the same question. Many of us had serious man crushes on the guy (me included). But he wanted Fitz money and we had two young guys in the wings chomping at the bit. The new generation of Bidwell isn’t cheap like his old man, rather he sees that we can’t drop 20 mil on two receivers when we got a guy like Darnell Docket we can’t let get away.

Bidwells probably found them in the discount bin…

Personally I think that they’ll try and get Breaston into the passing game more. He was 7/7 for 132 yards…. if that doesn’t earn him some extra looks then maybe he can find some flares.

And I don’t know if it was Fitz’s injury and chemistry problems, or DA’s accuracy issues but a lot of those throws were just way off target.

When he is healthy (and his timing is down with the QB), he can catch almost anything thrown his way though. I’m sure that you guys remember him catching the flea flicker during the 2008 game while he was in double coverage.

our coaching staff responds to losing pretty well… the Falcons normally come out and massacre our opponents after a tough road loss and Matt Ryan is 13-1 in the GA Dome for a reason. I expect the Falcons to show up blazin.

DRC will probably be on White the entire game though. Toler looked good though, he was solid in coverage, he made 13 tackles, and he forced a fumble on one of them.

But he is still a rookie. He has good height, good speed, good hands, and can make plays. But he makes the wrong reads sometimes and goes to the wrong places. Though his timing with DA is better than the other receivers because they played a lot together during preseason.
We will see with our “hyped” rookies though. Sometimes preseason is like beer goggles.