Falcon's season over

by BabyGoatEater on Sep 13, 2011 10:33 AM EDT

It was a long season, but it's finally over. The Bears are on there way to the Superbowl, leaving our beloved Falcons in the dust. It was a horrible way to go out. Wish there was a few more games left to get that taste out of our mouths. But alas, its over. Seems that it never even got started, before the sky fell down. As we work our way to another typical Falcons season, 0-16, we should reflect on other trends that obviously will come to pass soon.

Some more NFL thoughts after the jump.

On a good note, Kroy Biermann did intercept 16 passes this year, a DE record.

Cam Newton is on his way to a NFL QB record of 6752 yards. Incredible. I cant believe nobody changed the way they defend the phenom! (Its a shame Brady had to throw for 8272 yards, and over-shadow the rookie's crazy year)

Even with Cam in the division, incredibly, all NFCS teams are finishing up 0-16 seasons. Not sure how Goodell is going to handle the playoff situation. Is the tie breaker points scored, or points given up?

After going 4-12 last year, and only scoring 283 points, the record breaking Bills are just putting the finishing touches on a 16-0 season, scoring an incredible 656 points. That has to be the best comeback storyline in the NFL this season.

The Packers are who we thought they were. The defending Superbowl champs in short time will be 16-0 also, and will have scored 672 points (edging the great Bills by only 16 points).

Baltimore and Houston, the latter never known for their defense, have only given up 112 points this year. A new record.

I know it's semantics, but there's 15 more games you say?

Bull-Mularkey.

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This made me laugh alot

Nice to see someone have some fun with these people who have decided that the Falcons are the new Bronco’s (Sorry to any Bronco fans reading this)

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by dunlagh on Sep 13, 2011 10:42 AM EDT reply actions

No offense

my Broncos have to do much better by far

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by the new Bradfather on Sep 15, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Brilliant

Exactly what some people need to see. Loved it.

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by Turner_The_Burner on Sep 13, 2011 11:17 AM EDT reply actions

Awesome

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by Ball Hawk on Sep 13, 2011 11:40 AM EDT via mobile reply actions

LOL, that was great.

For a minute, I thought you were serious. Okay, it wasn’t a full minute, but maybe like 3 seconds.

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by TomQ on Sep 13, 2011 2:24 PM EDT reply actions

What was with all that 1 in a million talk?

I hate the trolls on ESPN and AJC. So hard to distinguish Vick-lovers and Saints fans. Oh well.

Good job putting things in perspective, but I do have to say that this loss was harder to stomach than the Steelers loss last year. This team baffles me every week.

by jgentry425 on Sep 13, 2011 2:25 PM EDT reply actions

Saints fans didn’t like Vick even back when you guys loved him. They should be pretty easy to distinguish from Vick-lovers.

by Drew-Dat on Sep 13, 2011 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions

Except both of them have similar arguements about Matt Ryan

He’s just a game manager, not a game-changer (do they even watch the games?), he has a weak arm (technically, he has an arm considered to be stronger than Brees), he’s over-rated (I can see that, but he’s still good).

And both of them hate the Falcons. Saints fans because, well, they’re supposed to. Vick-lovers because, well, they were never real fans, they are Vick fans, and even though he screwed the team in just about every feasible way, they still have this stupid notion that he got screwed over by them.

by jgentry425 on Sep 14, 2011 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Saints fans

Are supposed to hate the Falcons. Just like I normally hate the Saints, because I’m a Falcons fan. I do give them support during games against common enemies (hated Northern teams).

by SusanB on Sep 16, 2011 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions

I agree, Saints fans are supposed to hate our Falcons,

and we are supposed to hate them. I see nothing wrong with that. I was only complaining that they make obnoxious and db comments about our qb, which really gets under my skin.

I never support the Saints. I hope they lose every game. The fans would still troll though.

by jgentry425 on Sep 19, 2011 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions

You say John Abraham ends the season with 32 Sacks?

I’ll take that

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by JoshChildressAfroIsCure4Cancer on Sep 13, 2011 4:41 PM EDT reply actions

1600 yards from turner on just 160 carries?? that's insane!

too bad he never scored a TD

by FLA_Falcon on Sep 13, 2011 7:23 PM EDT reply actions

Very well done

and the timing was great.

by mwalex on Sep 13, 2011 9:46 PM EDT reply actions

awesome. Rec'd

by YokoFalcon on Sep 14, 2011 12:31 AM EDT reply actions

LOL

GOOD STUFF! Rec’d

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by Dirtybyrdatl4life on Sep 14, 2011 11:33 AM EDT reply actions

Fantastic

by Dave Choate on Sep 14, 2011 12:15 PM EDT reply actions

after this week then what?

Does that mean 2012 came early? lol

I too saw this game as the worst possible game we could have played. And I see the Falcons coming out this week and actually showing up and beating the Eagles, barely but still win. With the Eagles pass rush not near as good as the Bears is, I see Ryan hitting some big plays on them. We’ll get hit for some big ones too, but Ryan gets the ball last and leads us to the come from behing victory with a TD pass to RW on the last play of the game. We win 31-30. We get the ball first go straight down the field, with Ryan hitting JJ for a 56 yard TD pass, then first eagles series, Grimes pick 6’s Vick and whamm it’s 14-0 withim the first 4 mins of the game, then we basically have a few bonehead plays causing them to take a late lead at 30-24 on a super play from Vick, but he leaves too much time on the clock for Ryan and Co – 1:43, an we all know how it ends after that.

Fingers crossed, praying my butt off.

Now Gentlemen, get your butts up, and get back on that horse! You have no choice. The expectations are running much higher this year.

by ATLsince1972 on Sep 14, 2011 1:47 PM EDT reply actions

Retrospectively…

by ChrisWells on Sep 20, 2011 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Retrospectively…

…not far off!

by ChrisWells on Sep 20, 2011 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Thanks guys.

I was as sad/angry/suicidal as all Falcon’s fans last Sunday, but you gotta remember it’s a long season.

I sorta think we’ll win at least one this year. ;-)

(BTW, got some really bad quality phone videos of the Falcons warming up before the Steelers Pre-season game from the sidelines, but my damn Zune software wont transfer it to my PC, so I can get it up here. Working on it.)

by BabyGoatEater on Sep 14, 2011 3:12 PM EDT reply actions