Hard Knocks & Hard Liquor LIVE from Flowery Branch: The OFFICIAL 2014 Atlanta Falcons Season Thread
A.V.
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Brehs, let me give you a clue as to how average every one of our defensive players are. I didn't in the least notice a change in the fact Willy mo wasn't playing. The announcing booth was making mention of all the offensive line starters out and I didn't even notice. I actually feel in the first half the line did pretty decent. It is a sad state of affairs that I didn't even notice anything different.
like " awww dang we could have used willy mo out there today" no, the same junk wouldhave happened.
Who on the Defense actually starts for say a defense like Seattle's?
like " awww dang we could have used willy mo out there today" no, the same junk wouldhave happened.
Who on the Defense actually starts for say a defense like Seattle's?
That's the thing. Our defense has absolutely zero to no talent on it. Is it the coaches that are at fault for our defense being as shytty as they are right now? Perhaps it's Thomas Dimitroff and his front office? The answer's both, breh's. Nolan has been preaching since he's gotten here that he wants to play a 3-4 defense, and this offseason (while we can consider it a "transition" this year), his requests were answered and we went out and signed Soliai and T. Jackson while drafting players such as Hageman. Those are all 3-4 type players. Now that Nolan has SOME type of personnel to run that type of defense, what have we gotten? Nothing. No improvement. Not even a sliver of signs that we could dominate an offense other than the Buccaneers.
The problem with blaming our coaching staff is that we can't blame them without putting some blame on Dimitroff, Pioli, etc. Year in and year out, TD & Crew have failed to put out a respectable defense. I've been tired of this same old "bend but don't break, let's rely on our offense to keep us in the games" type of strategy. When you draft players such as Rashede Hageman in the second round and he sees less than 50% of the snaps on defense, you've gone wrong. When you waste a third round pick on a special teams player in Dez Southward, you've gone wrong. Second AND third round draft picks should be at or almost ready to see the majority of snaps. Hageman, so far, has looked tired, unmotivated, and simply what he was in HBO Hard Knocks -- a softy -- so far in the season. Southward didn't have the best training camp and offseason due to his injuries, but that still goes against TD and his crew.
This makes me wish we had just traded our second and third round picks (Hageman, Southward) in the first round and swapped picks with anyone in the Top 5 to acquire either JaDeveon Clowney or Khalil Mack, and we could have drafted a project prospect offensive tackle in Seantrel Henderson from Miami.
I'm just tired of being mediocre as fukk, breh's. It's fun to watch a high scoring NFL team and all, but what's even funner is to watch your team win... Regardless of how they did it.
I can't fault going for it. Defense got buttfukked the whole 2nd half. I will say the playcall was poor though.
I never thought I'd say this, but even if we have to give up a first or second round pick, I'd be all for making a move to acquire a pass rusher. I'd even be on board to acquire another receiver to add depth to a position where Jones is basically holding up the fort by himself. You can look at Hester's isolated plays here and there, but he's neither the correct receiver to pair with Jones to form that "1, 2" combination nor is he the long-term answer. Roddy White just looks like he's lost a step nowadays. I just want the front office to do something and not be a sitting duck come trade deadline like last year.
Rebel Soldier
He’s good
One player isn't saving this defense.
If they traded a pick outside the 5th round, I'd be cool though.
Trading for a player worth a 5th rounder or later is exactly the type of move we settled for last year when we had a gaping hole at WR, essentially relying on Douglas to be our #1 target, and making the "big move" of signing Robiskie. I don't know about you, but I refuse to settle for a front office and coaching staff that would rather be blind to their own mistakes of not acquiring enough talent on the defensive side of the ball this offseason. What was supposed to be a mere "blimp" on the radar after last season is becoming much more than that. Our defense is HORRENDOUS. I never said acquiring any pass rusher would fix this defense, but like I said, I would rather see the front office try than to remain stagnant in our pool of shyt. Because it is obvious that if we do not acquire any more talent and patch some holes on this team that we will be a lot worse than just a .500 team.
Rebel Soldier
He’s good
I'm just not down with trading our first or second round picks. There is a good chance we're going to pick high again and being able to draft a potential stud linebacker or edge rusher would be a godsend.
I understand wanting to see the front office do something. However, some things have to remain off limits. Screwing up next years draft for a potential new regime is not the way to go. That's my thing.
AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
Kickoff in 10 mins
No HD and I believe no Hester either brehs
No HD and I believe no Hester either brehs
Hester is active.
I went to the Dome around 1 to tailgate with my uncle (in town from the Chi) and other Bears fans. Me and my brother rode down there and couldn't find the fukking lot. Talk about pissed! Worthless ass workers had us walkin all around in this 85 degree weather and couldn't tell us where Lot A was. After bout an hour we said fukk it rode the train back and grabbed some food.
We need this W tho!
rip928
Pro
Let me go ahead and take this advil right now.
AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
I got the Hard Liquor on deck 
A shot of patron for every TD we allow, I'm gon get fukked up
A shot of patron for every TD we allow, I'm gon get fukked up
Breh, there is thisI got the Hard Liquor on deck
A shot of patron for every TD we allow, I'm gon get fukked up
German dominant bar near me and during the World Cup they were having a promotion that if you were wearing your Teams jersey for every goal they scored you got a free shoot. That 7-1 whooping we put on Brazil, I was lit