Saturday Six Pack: Local Battle Edition 11/19/11

by Caleb Rutherford on Nov 19, 2011 2:18 PM EST in Saturday Six Packs

If the Falcons game is bad this weekend, I may have to invest in these.

Important game coming up this weekend, as the Titans come to visit the Dome. The Titans have been somewhat of an enigmatic team this year, much like us. Hopefully we'll pull out a win this weekend. Not too much more to say about it, so let's get rolling.

AJC: DOL has interview with Ian Eagle, the man who will be calling the play-by-play for CBS this weekend. It's somewhat of an interesting read because he's supposed to be unbiased and offers a different take from what a lot of us Falcons fans think. Second, the Falcons OL is campaigning for McClure to go to the Pro Bowl. Pretty cool to the the whole OL come together to try to get their vet to the pro bowl for the first time.

The National: Mike Smith refuses to dwell on the failed 4th down attempt from last week. I love Smitty's attitude here. He's confident. He understands that sometimes things don't go the way we want. And we move forward from it. Gooray Falcons.

Washington Post: New Falcons DE Ray Edwards feels like he's letting the team down. I've seen him get some pretty good rushes off the end, we're just not getting any sacks this year. Looks to me like his knee isn't 100% yet, which isn't good, but at least he's showing that he wants to be better.

Fox Sports: John Manasso of Fox Sports thinks that Chris Johnson could run all over us. The same Chris Johnson who is having a rough season. The same Falcons D who's pretty good at stopping the run. We certainly need to make sure that we keep CJ in check or it could be a long Sunday.

SBN Atlanta: Our own Alexander Shirkey asks whether Julio's injuries are a product of bad luck or a product of us trading up. That's an interesting question because there are times when I feel like the city is cursed, but the expectations for Julio are most likely much higher here than if he had ended up with the Browns. But, who knows.

Random Funny: Really, if you want a random funny, make your own facebook page, add about 500 friends from high school/college/and some random people you don't know, and watch the hilarity ensure. So much stupidity is posted on Facebook, it's comical. In any case, here is an amusing trespass sign.

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My no trespass sign reads

IF YOU CAN READ THIS YOUR IN RANGE!

by Grey Rider on Nov 19, 2011 4:22 PM EST via mobile reply actions

Just realized I forgot to fix "Gooray Falcons"

Even though I noticed it while I was making the post.

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by Caleb Rutherford on Nov 19, 2011 5:12 PM EST reply actions

We'll have to add it to the Falcoholic's lexicon.

by RamblininAlb on Nov 21, 2011 12:00 AM EST up reply actions

Ian Eagle

Hit it on the head about how the Falcons have done against the bottom feeders and the high flyers…

Evil Falcon

by falconplanet on Nov 19, 2011 6:20 PM EST reply actions

Damn

We are 1-5 against winning teams this year. What’s the deal? And when Ian said “they beat who they’re supposed to they’re just looking to break through.” I thought, I’m pretty sure I’ve heard that the last 3 years. Ill beat the dead horse, when the talents there, but the wins aren’t coming, it’s the coaches.1

by dirtybirds233 on Nov 19, 2011 6:31 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

beating who you’re supposed to is a product of good coaching. the only reason we’re in the position to be expected to compete against top teams is we take care of business against the lesser ones…im not sure how long you’ve been a fan, but there have been MANY falcons teams who would stand toe-to-toe with a perennial contender on the road, and then come home to lay an egg against a doormat team we were expected to beat by double digits.also,
we only have four losses, so im not sure how we could be 1-5 against any type of teams.

we haven’t gotten off to the kind of year we were all hoping for, but we’ve got a great schedule down the stretch and if we take care of business the way we always do, we’ll just need to beat one or two good teams (depending on where you place houston sans shaub) to make the dance and anything can happen once you get there, especially for a team with tons of talent like this one

by throw it down the fugging field matt on Nov 19, 2011 9:18 PM EST up reply actions

Sorry sorry sorry

Forgive me, I’m capable of a typo. I meant 1-4. And we’ve all been talking about how bad the coaching is…I’m not pulling this out of my ass. The only game we’ve convincingly won all year has been the colts game..who just so happens to be winless. We are 2nd in the league in penalties, and it’s hard to not beat the teams we should with the talent we have. Even then, we almost screw those games up too (seahawks).

by dirtybirds233 on Nov 19, 2011 9:57 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

well, we get a good chance

tonight (or today, depending on which part of the world you live in) to see if we can fix that record to 2-4. on a second thought, if we beat the Titans they’d be 5-5, which would technically take them out of the “winning team” discussion. would we still be 1-4 then against teams above .500?

Atlanta Falcons fan in Moscow, Russia

by Gemini-RU on Nov 20, 2011 2:28 AM EST up reply actions