Doctor Kildare

Aint loss today means the Falcons' 2nd round pick from the Pats for Sanu is going to be 23rd. As far as draft position, that trade is a whole lot better than the 31st or 32nd that looked likely at the time.

Who Dat?

I am no expert on comedy, but for pure slapstick it's hard to beat the laughs from this:

I think the Falcons might be helped by a new NFL rule not allowing in-game drug use by the referees.

Here is a quote on the play on the Ringer site: "Adding to the mess—are we sure it touched the ground and not Hooper’s foot? Usually with these types of messy replays, officials will stick with the call on the field, as the rules state. Not this time: The NFL overturned the call, giving the Falcons a third down with five seconds left to try again." https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2019/12/15/21023655/falcons-49ers-wild-finish-nfc-playoff-race Of course what the NFL usually does will not apply to rhe Falcons.

Al Riveron, the NY replay official explains the logic of overturning Hooper's catch: “The ball actually takes him to the ground. This is the one remaining situation where you have two steps, but if you don’t have a football move, you’re going to the ground, you must survive the ground," Riveron told a pool reporter. “In this situation, he takes the ball, it hits the ground and then he loses control of the football when he comes back up. Therefore, it’s an incomplete pass.” ---------------------------- For one thing, it appears the ball hit the shoe, not the ground. And on the next play, if somebody had been on the line blocking the goal line camera on Julio's catch, the Falcons would have been cheated out of a game they should have won.

Somebody must of told Drew that there was a camera on.

Logic and fair play suggests that the NFL would not dare do that even if they would like to. But I am reminded of Jerry Tarkanian's quote: "The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky they're going to give Cleveland State another year of probation."

The Patriots apparantly violated league rules by taping the Bengals sidelines. What is the chance the league punishes the Patriots by taking away their second round pick they sent to the Falcons for Sanu so the Falcons, not the Pats, lose the pick. Somebody could get a reward from the commissioner for suggesting this remedy for the NFL's dilemma with regard to misdeeds from their designated dynasty.

Dimitroff proves his superior expertise by never never drafting offensive lineman that develop so we have to pay them a second contract. He has developed a revolutionary way to save money.

Fire the GM and his scouts who have proven over 12 years that they are not good at assembling line talent.

Blank has brought soccer glory to Atlanta, winning world championship of Major League Soccer.

Then we got trouble. Look who works for Korn Ferry. DAN QUINN SENIOR CLIENT PARTNER NEW YORK Dan Quinn is a Senior Client Partner for Korn Ferry, based in the Firm’s New York office. https://www.kornferry.com/consultants/danquinn

All we need to know about Dimitroff's OL choices is when the Falcons let them go, they have never made it elsewhere with the one example of Hawley with Koetter at Tampa.