Falcons off-season thread - Page 265

Shiver · 01-02-2011, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ATLDirtyBirds

Losing in the playoffs is going to be awesome.

I think we are going to be a lot like the 2005 Seattle Seahawks. We will make the Super Bowl off of home field advantage and solid, but unspectacular play. Then got roasted by New England on the big stage.

ATLDirtyBirds · 01-02-2011, 04:45 PM

We shall see, I could see anything from a first game loss to a Superbowl win. This is a big year. We are in a pretty damn tough division (add in a Carolina with Luck) and we are going to have to worry about paying people soon.

Bosanac01 · 01-02-2011, 06:01 PM

I think we made the playoffs, and I think we are the best in NFC, and I just think we got home field advantage throughout the whole postseason.

2010 I like.

ATLDirtyBirds · 01-02-2011, 07:41 PM

So we are most likely playing the Saints. Anyone else think we knew this was the most likely scenario and we were thus intentionally extremely vanilla on offense and all the blitz packages were more for the Saints offense to have to game plan for?

dunagan15 · 01-03-2011, 12:27 AM

No excuses now, You got 2 weeks to prepare and a week to rest, better get your **** together, no more, we will improve next week, we gotta win 3 more games now. Glad were going into it w/ a confident defense.

D-Rod · 01-03-2011, 03:23 AM

If we can't beat the Saints when we're coming off a bye and they're coming off a road trip to Seattle, then we don't deserve to go anywhere near Dallas.

Then, fingers crossed, the Bears will take care of the Eagles in a cold weather game, and we'll get the Bears in our dome - and frankly, without home field advantage, I really don't rate Chicago. In particular, the match-up of Abraham vs Frank Omiyale says to me, win.

dunagan15 · 01-03-2011, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by D-Rod

If we can't beat the Saints when we're coming off a bye and they're coming off a road trip to Seattle, then we don't deserve to go anywhere near Dallas.

Then, fingers crossed, the Bears will take care of the Eagles in a cold weather game, and we'll get the Bears in our dome - and frankly, without home field advantage, I really don't rate Chicago. In particular, the match-up of Abraham vs Frank Omiyale says to me, win.

Past 2 games against the Bears have been nail biters and very very close.

Just refer to page 49 for the first one, and then another last season that was intense. Id expect nothing less.

Im definitly more worried about the Saints than the Bears, you would just think the Saints having no run game will come back to bite them.

Shiver · 01-03-2011, 03:37 PM

Here's hoping that Green Bay and Seattle win this weekend. That would make our life so much easier.

Draft King · 01-03-2011, 10:22 PM

I think we beat the Saints, and then the Bears in the Conference. The Superbowl is tough to predict, thank god we will be in a dome if we make it that far, we seem to play much better that way. Although I do feel people underrate Matt Ryan in the cold, he was super clutch against the Jets last season in December.

dunagan15 · 01-04-2011, 01:50 AM

**** the cold, were indoors the rest of the way.

TheFalconsFan · 01-04-2011, 02:05 PM

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- The Denver Broncos will interview Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey for their vacant head coaching position this week.

The team announced via its official Twitter account Tuesday that Mularkey would be interviewed Friday in Atlanta. The Falcons are off this week after earning a first-round bye in the playoffs.

Mularkey was head coach in Buffalo from 2004-05 and has been with the Falcons since 2008.

John Elway will be introduced as the Broncos' new chief football executive this week, and he'll interview Denver interim coach Eric Studesville for the full-time job next week.

Studesville was promoted from running backs coach when Josh McDaniels was fired a month ago.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/s...e=NFLHeadlines

Hope this won't be a distraction

Bosanac01 · 01-04-2011, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by TheFalconsFan

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/s...e=NFLHeadlines

Hope this won't be a distraction

Mularkey will rather become a HC than win the superbowl as an OC. It's just a lot more money.

ATLDirtyBirds · 01-04-2011, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Bosanac01

Mularkey will rather become a HC than win the superbowl as an OC. It's just a lot more money.

He can have both.

Bosanac01 · 01-04-2011, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ATLDirtyBirds

He can have both.

Yea but I'm just saying he's more focused on becoming a HC. As soon as playoffs are over, he gets to start on his new job. We really need the offense to step up during the playoffs.

Bosanac01 · 01-04-2011, 10:11 PM

When you watch seahawks and saints play this saturday, just hope for a lot of injures. :D

I wouldn't rule out the Hawks on this one.

dunagan15 · 01-05-2011, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Bosanac01

When you watch seahawks and saints play this saturday, just hope for a lot of injures. :D

I wouldn't rule out the Hawks on this one.

From this point on its 1 game. Doesn't matter what they did earlier in the year. Any team in the NFl can beat another team on a given playoff day (unless that team is the Panthers).

D-Rod · 01-05-2011, 10:44 AM

Not to be a pedant, but the title should actually be Seahawks/Saints/Packers, as wins by the Seahawks and Packers would see us face the Pack first (which would be worse than facing the Hawks, of course, but it would be nice not to have the Vick nightmare scenario come true).

It's not ideal to have our coordinator distracted this week, but who knows, maybe it will shake things up a bit and prove a blessing in disguise.

Bosanac01 · 01-05-2011, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by D-Rod

Not to be a pedant, but the title should actually be Seahawks/Saints/Packers, as wins by the Seahawks and Packers would see us face the Pack first (which would be worse than facing the Hawks, of course, but it would be nice not to have the Vick nightmare scenario come true).
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How would that go? Then the hawks play the bears?

Shiver · 01-05-2011, 01:14 PM

We play the lowest seed. Which means we need to root like crazy for the Seahawks and Packers. Either or and we're good. Just as long as we can avoid the Saints and Eagles and force those finesse offenses to go into Chicago and beat the Bears before they get to us. If we draw Chicago in the NFCCG then it is cash money, in the bank, pack your bags for Dallas.

D-Rod · 01-06-2011, 04:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Shiver

We play the lowest seed. Which means we need to root like crazy for the Seahawks and Packers. Either or and we're good. Just as long as we can avoid the Saints and Eagles and force those finesse offenses to go into Chicago and beat the Bears before they get to us. If we draw Chicago in the NFCCG then it is cash money, in the bank, pack your bags for Dallas.

Agreed. If we can't beat the Bears at home then we don't deserve to get anywhere near a Super Bowl.

That said, the Packers would be a tough out, although I'd still rather face them than the Saints.

Bosanac01 · 01-06-2011, 11:06 AM

I honestly don't care who we play. We should be able to beat every NFC team at home, if not, well then we don't deserve to play in the Super Bowl. It's as simple as that.

It would just be boring to play the Saints for the 3rd time, but we should be able to beat them.

ATLDirtyBirds · 01-06-2011, 11:35 AM

Former Denver Broncos coach Josh McDaniels would be high on San Francisco's list, as the team heard repeated positive sentiment about him through the hiring process. However, sources close to McDaniels believe it's virtually certain he wouldn't go to the 49ers given their current front-office structure, and it's far more likely he would wind up with the Atlanta Falcons as their offensive coordinator should Mike Mularkey land as a head coach elsewhere.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d...49ers-dolphins

But then there's this:

Choosing to focus on Atlanta's playoff game next week, Falcons offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey has informed the Denver Broncos he will not interview for their coaching opening on Friday as planned, according to a team source.

Mularkey still will go through with his previously scheduled interview Saturday with the Cleveland Browns, but he is doing that because they called first and he feels a certain sense of obligation, according to the source.

Mularkey still wants to be a head coach, and would interview with Denver later if it still had its opening after the Falcons' season ended, according to the source. But for now, he wants to keep as much of his focus as possible on the Falcons' upcoming playoff game and doesn't want to have to prepare for coaching interviews on back-to-back days.

Mularkey was a head coach for two seasons at Buffalo and served as an offensive assistant with the Dolphins, Steelers and Buccaneers.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playof...ory?id=5995045

Which makes me think he's not going anywhere.

thefalconer · 01-06-2011, 12:56 PM

damn i want mcdaniels but a change in system might regress the offense. i am growing very weary of mularkey's mundane offense though.

D-Rod · 01-06-2011, 02:54 PM

Best news of the week:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5995754

I must confess, I'd rather not have had Luck in our division as well. Who knows, though, maybe the Panthers will get another shot next year... ;)

Re Mularkey and McDaniels, I think that in any other year a change would be good (I like Mularkey, but he's a bit stale, McDaniels would fit well with our weapons, and Ryan is at the stage where he can take change). However, in a potentially shortened offseason there would be less time to learn a new system, so I hope Mularkey stays. I reckon it's about 50/50 now.

D-Rod · 01-06-2011, 02:56 PM

lol, how out of date is my sig?