byau
Active member
A lot of discussion and concern here, I don't know about you, I am seriously PUMPED!
1) Not how you start, how you finish:
Strong first half, terrible third quarter.. each of our units failed us. Offense couldn't stay on the field. Defense let up three touchdowns. Special teams: missed field goal AND PAT. But how did we finish?
ZERO points for the Falcons in the 4th quarter... ZERO including an interception and a couple nasty hits
Two scoring drives for the offense: touchdown and fieldgoal
Special teams: iced it with the field goal. After two consecutive misses (bad snap and a low kick) the unit comes together under a make or break situation and nails it.
2) We beat an elite team
We beat an elite team. Let's get that out there. I think Atlanta is elite.
I would say comfortably the elite teams currently are
NFC: Minnesota, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle
AFC: New England, maybe Pittsburgh?
Every other team has had a bit of a meltdown.
When you play an elite team, you expect that other team to be able to also make plays. You expect a one score victory, you expect a brawl, you expect maybe even just 1 to 4 point victory.
Folks, we beat an elite team. I'll take it
3) Where exactly are the "elite" teams?"
Re-read that list of elite teams and also consider who the pre-season contenders are... From pre-season predictions, who's still up there? Seattle and New England. Think about that. From an objective point of view, New England is THE TEAM for the last 15 years. And now we're up there with them. Even Green Bay has fallen off. And do we even want to mention what's going on with Arizona or Carolina right now? All the other teams have fallen off. In a week 6 where many of the potential contenders lost: Denver, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Panthers, Oakland, Green Bay ... Seattle comes out with a win against an elite team. I'll take it
4) Sherman's tirade
Not sure what some of you guys saw, I saw something similar to Sherman's tirade in the 2014 NFC game against Green Bay and absolutely loved it. These guys are emotional, these guys keep each other in check. Heard this morning on 710 ESPN someone was on the sideline and heard Kam say to Sherman "That was on you!" which started Sherman's tirade. You have to love that someone is wiling to stand up to Sherman. And then the whole group rallying around Sherm and jumping up and down in a shot a few minutes later? Gave me freaking gooseubmps!!!
5) Sherman's still a team player
Against Brandon Marshall, Bobby Wagner had said in a post-game that a few times he and a few others came up to Sherm asking if he was good, if he wanted help, Sherman flat out said no, that he was fine going man-on-man with Brandon. Bobby and the others kept an eye out on Sherm but ultimately left him and Sherm was good on his word
The fact on the last drive you saw Earl coming by to help out (especially notable on the very last play) we can only interpolate that Sherman was humble enough to accept the help on Julio Jones. That tells me that Sherm knows how far to push it, and also knows when to accept help. That's putting the team first
BONUS: PI call
I don't think we got away with anything. I see that call going either way, and when a call can go either way, it's not getting away with anything. (I also think Earl being there, clogging the area, potential of more incidental contact then man to man, both Sherm and Earl going for the ball, helped the non-call happen)
EXTRA BONUS: We still would have won...felt it in my bones
Angry Earl on that hit on the last drive. The D. The noise. And the terrible play calling by the Falcons ..with SO MUCH TIME LEFT why were you bombing it out like that (reminded me of terrible Bevell in SB XLIX). No medium or short yardage attempts? Rushes? Maybe because the D was so locked in that Coach Quinn saw he wouldn't even succeed there and had to take a long shot on Julio (and hope for a PI). Not sure why but I just felt it in my bones: Even if Julio caught that, the Falcons still would have been stopped. Turnover or knocked out of field goal range or something.
EXTRA BONUS BONUS: MNF ...feel it in my bones
not sure why I feel it in my bones that the Jets are going to win by 10 tonight against Arizona .. just because of the way week 6 has gone. I hate to put that out there because I'm usually wrong and am better at predicting games after-the-fact
In short... don't know about you, after this game I am SUPER PUMPED!!!
1) Not how you start, how you finish:
Strong first half, terrible third quarter.. each of our units failed us. Offense couldn't stay on the field. Defense let up three touchdowns. Special teams: missed field goal AND PAT. But how did we finish?
ZERO points for the Falcons in the 4th quarter... ZERO including an interception and a couple nasty hits
Two scoring drives for the offense: touchdown and fieldgoal
Special teams: iced it with the field goal. After two consecutive misses (bad snap and a low kick) the unit comes together under a make or break situation and nails it.
2) We beat an elite team
We beat an elite team. Let's get that out there. I think Atlanta is elite.
I would say comfortably the elite teams currently are
NFC: Minnesota, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle
AFC: New England, maybe Pittsburgh?
Every other team has had a bit of a meltdown.
When you play an elite team, you expect that other team to be able to also make plays. You expect a one score victory, you expect a brawl, you expect maybe even just 1 to 4 point victory.
Folks, we beat an elite team. I'll take it
3) Where exactly are the "elite" teams?"
Re-read that list of elite teams and also consider who the pre-season contenders are... From pre-season predictions, who's still up there? Seattle and New England. Think about that. From an objective point of view, New England is THE TEAM for the last 15 years. And now we're up there with them. Even Green Bay has fallen off. And do we even want to mention what's going on with Arizona or Carolina right now? All the other teams have fallen off. In a week 6 where many of the potential contenders lost: Denver, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Panthers, Oakland, Green Bay ... Seattle comes out with a win against an elite team. I'll take it
4) Sherman's tirade
Not sure what some of you guys saw, I saw something similar to Sherman's tirade in the 2014 NFC game against Green Bay and absolutely loved it. These guys are emotional, these guys keep each other in check. Heard this morning on 710 ESPN someone was on the sideline and heard Kam say to Sherman "That was on you!" which started Sherman's tirade. You have to love that someone is wiling to stand up to Sherman. And then the whole group rallying around Sherm and jumping up and down in a shot a few minutes later? Gave me freaking gooseubmps!!!
5) Sherman's still a team player
Against Brandon Marshall, Bobby Wagner had said in a post-game that a few times he and a few others came up to Sherm asking if he was good, if he wanted help, Sherman flat out said no, that he was fine going man-on-man with Brandon. Bobby and the others kept an eye out on Sherm but ultimately left him and Sherm was good on his word
The fact on the last drive you saw Earl coming by to help out (especially notable on the very last play) we can only interpolate that Sherman was humble enough to accept the help on Julio Jones. That tells me that Sherm knows how far to push it, and also knows when to accept help. That's putting the team first
BONUS: PI call
I don't think we got away with anything. I see that call going either way, and when a call can go either way, it's not getting away with anything. (I also think Earl being there, clogging the area, potential of more incidental contact then man to man, both Sherm and Earl going for the ball, helped the non-call happen)
EXTRA BONUS: We still would have won...felt it in my bones
Angry Earl on that hit on the last drive. The D. The noise. And the terrible play calling by the Falcons ..with SO MUCH TIME LEFT why were you bombing it out like that (reminded me of terrible Bevell in SB XLIX). No medium or short yardage attempts? Rushes? Maybe because the D was so locked in that Coach Quinn saw he wouldn't even succeed there and had to take a long shot on Julio (and hope for a PI). Not sure why but I just felt it in my bones: Even if Julio caught that, the Falcons still would have been stopped. Turnover or knocked out of field goal range or something.
EXTRA BONUS BONUS: MNF ...feel it in my bones
not sure why I feel it in my bones that the Jets are going to win by 10 tonight against Arizona .. just because of the way week 6 has gone. I hate to put that out there because I'm usually wrong and am better at predicting games after-the-fact
In short... don't know about you, after this game I am SUPER PUMPED!!!
