(((((( ^^^^ The OFFICIAL DIRTEE BIRDZ 2012 Thread ^^^^ ))))))
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allday1992 wrote: »But we gave all those picks to cleveland tho
ikr? We could've won 4 games last year. Damn Blank is dumb. -
My ? dent with the sack
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Lol @ the ravens finally moving against the second unit
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I know this is just a vanilla sample, but I'm more excited about the Defense so far. And I know the Offense is holding back some looks.
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Why the ? was dent still in there??
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redman so trash. Bring that brother in. foh
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Damn Dent.
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Palmer is lookin' decent as a backup TE. Gonzo teachin' him how to run routes.
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Any word on Dent's injury?
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Your first team defense actually looked half decent, pre post-season champs?
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Knocked himself unconscious
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Mantequilla wrote: »Your first team defense actually looked half decent, pre post-season champs?
Better than last year, that's all I ask of our D. Especially our pass D. -
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Basically yeah
That was probably his last special teams play -
Coo.
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Pleased overall tonight.
Team definitely looks more in tune than last year at this time.
Smh @ Julio. If he stays healthy.... Well let's just say problems will ensue,
D-Line been makin noise all camp. Especially the interior.
Pass rushers and DBs get all the hype, but good defense starts from inside out. Best Interior line rotation since Rod Coleman, lol.
And of course....
D FRANKS!!! BOOMER!!!
Special teams is the one thing u CAN judge in preseason, cause it ain't no such thing as "vanilla" special teams, especially considering that ST is where cats are trying to make the team. So kickoffs and punts are even more competitive.
B- for tonight overall.
And s/o to Smitty makin the offense play the whole 1st quarter. -
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The kid is learning. lol
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That ? Julio like the Bizzaro Samson, cut his hair and got stronger.
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Watchin that ravens game again -- and damn. Our defensive starters looked sharp.
Surprised how good our CB trio was tackling. Alot of teams will try to run against our 4-2-5 formation, so they'll have to tackle well. Fortunately, Dunta is arguably the best tackling CB in the league, and Grime-Time is probably top 5.
Asante -- well, tackling aint his strong suit, but he did it well in this game - especially for a game that don't mean ? . I think that ? Andy Reid was talkin' got him turnt up. -
Another year, another FB blows out their knee.
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numbaz...80's baby wrote: »Our new Fullback Lousaka Polite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQBrwYLuRcQ&feature=player_embedded
DEAD @ Ron Meeks ? expression at the 0:51 mark.
Lousaka kinda look like Weebay with his helmet on. lol
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FLOWERY BRANCH —Falcons middle linebacker Akeem Dent, who suffered a concussion in the exhibition opener against the Baltimore Ravens, will not play against the Cincinnati Bengals at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Georgia Dome. “Akeem Dent is feeling better,” Falcons coach Mike Smith said. “He is still in the first phase of the concussion protocol. He definitely is not going to play, of course, this week. He is feeling a lot better. He was in meetings all day with us. “He is ruled out for this week. We are not too concerned. We’ve got time for him [to return]. We want him feeling better.”
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Cool. I say let him sit until the last preseason game. Those concussions linger like a muhfugga if you play with it.
Harry Douglas will play though. Crazy how efficient our offense was against b-more without Harry Douglas.
I predicted Harry Douglas would benefit from Julio more than any other player (other than Ryan) last year, and I'm holding on to that. Especially now that we have a full offseason and offensive coordinator that doesn't have downs syndrome. -
The Falcons invested high draft picks in Thomas DeCoud and William Moore with the hopes they could develop into a safety tandem for years to come. As they enter their third year together as starters, neither is shy about stating the importance of this season for the both of them. "This is the year that we are really going to hit our stride in terms of knowing our own system, knowing how to play off each other and knowing what each others weaknesses are," DeCoud said after a recent practice. "It's about time we got that ball rolling and really start playing some really, really good football." DeCoud was a third-round draft pick (No. 98 overall) in 2008. He re-signed with the Falcons in March before becoming a free agent. Moore followed as a second-round selection (No. 55 overall) in 2009. He has two years remaining on his original four-year contract. Their investment made, the Falcons await the payoff. Atlanta finished 20th in the NFL in passing defense last season (236.6 yards per game) and 22nd the previous year (226.6). The blame for those numbers hardly rests solely with the safeties but for the past two seasons, they have been the team's final line of defense. "There were a lot of mental errors," Moore said. "I don't want to get into the past but [former defensive coordinator Brian] Van Gorder's system was line up and play and we had a lot of mental errors on the back end. [We] were meant for [new defensive coordinator Mike] Nolan's defense as far as we like to move around, we like to roam a little bit. But, yes, there were a lot of growing pains." The Falcons have challenged the pair. Last season, the team brought in veteran safety James Sanders and management made it clear the move was not made to simply add depth. Veteran Chris Hope was signed this offseason. DeCoud and Moore said they have developed chemistry over their past two seasons and that they are learning from their mistakes, acknowledging that it takes time. "Safety is a position of experience," DeCoud said. "There are things that you don't see in your first year, second year, third year. In your fourth year, there will be things that you haven't seen yet. The more stuff we see, the more stuff we've been beaten by, the more stuff we know and know how respond or get corrected."
