Who Wants One?

[Guest Gritz]

[Tribal Chief]

ill take 2. do they have those in newborn as well

[Master Exploder]

Funny. But I'll start listening to this crap when we finish 4-12..

[falken]

Ouch. 4-2.

16-3 home record. 24-14 regular season record. We're 2-2 on the road this year and undefeated at home. We're atop the NFC South and the Conference.

What surprises me most is that Mularkey is taking a pounding the week after a defensive collapse.

I'm glad I don't have you guys judging my personal accomplishments.

[Guest Gritz]

Funny. But I'll start listening to this crap when we finish 4-12..

You're willing to wait for that?

[falken]

When did the Falcons become SO good that we expected perfection?

When did we become so good that leading the NFC South and the entire NFC wasn't good enough?

[Master Exploder]

You're willing to wait for that?

We are currently 4-2, tied at the top of the NFC in standings. We are currently 9th in the NFL in yards per game (YPG), and 12th in points per game (PPG). I'll admit we had a lot of problems with the Philly game, but those problems existed on both sides of the ball also. I think people like you are causing the most annoying stir on the message boards all because you think you can coach an offense better than Mike Mularkey. It is really sad to see this much hate on a guy that has done a lot for our offense.

Also, I'm just not up for throwing the offensive coordinator under the bus mid-season, when he is the one who took a 2007 offense that ranked 23rd in YPG and 29th in PPG and transformed it into an 11-5 team with a playoff run in 2008 with the 6th ranked offense in YPG and the 10th ranked offense in PPG.

And even in 2009, with all of our injury woes, Mularkey still had us ranked 16th in YPG and 13th in PPG, and helped bring our team its first back-to-back winning seasons with a 9-7 record.

I swear, sometimes after reading this board I forget how good our offense is, especially since we've played 3 teams in the top 10 in the NFL in yards allowed this season and 1 team that was ranked just outside of the top 10 at 11, yet we still have a top 10 offense this season thus far.

Edited October 22, 2010 by Master Exploder

[Gibson's Finest]

LMAO!!!

[SuperBMiller]

When did the Falcons become SO good that we expected perfection?

When did we become so good that leading the NFC South and the entire NFC wasn't good enough?

I think it's just our nature as fans. We know we can beat any team, at any given time. Unfortunately, we also think we should beat every team, every time.

Let us have a good performance on offense Sunday, and this will all blow over. I hope so, because I care for the well-being of everyone, and I know everyone feels better when the Falcons are on top

[Nono]

Ouch. 4-2.

16-3 home record. 24-14 regular season record. We're 2-2 on the road this year and undefeated at home. We're atop the NFC South and the Conference.

What surprises me most is that Mularkey is taking a pounding the week after a defensive collapse.

I'm glad I don't have you guys judging my personal accomplishments.

falken I agree there was alot of blown assignments on D but the offense just plain smelled. too many 3 & outs, crap red-zone plays, and just weak looking

[Guest Gritz]

I think people like you are causing the most annoying stir on the message boards all because you think you can coach an offense better than Mike Mularkey.

I think people like you take life waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too seriously.

This was primarily done in fun.

Relax.

[M0D3RNW4RR10R]

I know some Buffalo fans that would smile if they saw me wearing this. Unless it's a Sunday.

[Nono]

I know some Buffalo fans that would smile if they saw me wearing this. Unless it's a Sunday.

kind of the same way I'm smiling when I think of Petrino being 2 states away

Edited October 22, 2010 by Nono

[Falconcheff]

PLEEEZ Gritz, put something about Kevin Costner in there... they look like twins!

Seroiusly, though. Nobody on these boards thinks they can coach better than Bullarkey, but we mostly think there's someone out there who can. In his profession, he is mid-tier. We want a higher tier OC.

Edited October 22, 2010 by Falconcheff

[falken]

falken I agree there was alot of blown assignments on D but the offense just plain smelled. too many 3 & outs, crap red-zone plays, and just weak looking

I'll admit, in the Eagles game we were outplayed and out-coached. It sucked.

.........it's the short term memory that some fans have that blows me away. Mularkey has been a huge part of the success that have led to these expectations yet some would have you believe that we are so good that we win despite his accomplishments.

I know I'm not with the majority when it comes to Mularkey. (The vocal majority) So I have taken a step back just to see if my homerism is getting in the way of gauging Mularkey. I still don't see the reason that this board constantly bashes a guy that has done so much in his short time here.

I hate to think what a loss Sunday would do to these boards.

[sdogg]

When did the Falcons become SO good that we expected perfection?

When did we become so good that leading the NFC South and the entire NFC wasn't good enough?

Some have low standards. Some have high standards.

Guess you think the O is Just fine?

[falken]

I know some Buffalo fans that would smile if they saw me wearing this. Unless it's a Sunday.

Bills fans smiling? I doubt it. I bet some of the Bills fans have recognized that Mularkey left because ownership wouldn't do their part to field a winner.

[Master Exploder]

I think people like you take life waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too seriously.

This was primarily done in fun.

Relax.

I normally ignore things like this, but it's just adding fuel to the fire with the whole "Fire Mularkey" stuff. I know I'm not the only one who has witnessed numerous topics about this since mid-season last year. Have you actually counted how many topics are about this very subject that are currently active?

I find it hard to have a positive outlook on a team as a fan when it seems like the norm for a lot of other fans is to throw the OC under a bus. But maybe it's my problem, but this is a message board, and like everyone else venting their frustration with the "Fire Mularkey" non-sense, I feel obligated to vent my frustration on them.

[falken]

Some have low standards. Some have high standards.

Guess you think the O is Just fine?

Is that a shot at me? Low standards? Just fine? Tsk....tsk...tsk.

I don't think everything is just fine. I believe that as long as we stay ahead of the pack in the NFC that everything is great.

Some of you guys may not support MM and that's your right.

....but I'll tell you two people that evidently have MM's back....Dimitroff and Smith. So let me ask.......do those two guys 'know football'?

These two guys have stated before how they have a 'shared' philosophy. We want to run the ball and stop the run on defense. That's who those two guys want to be. I saw Mike Smith screaming into the microphone during the Saint's game, "Run the ball"!

My opinion: A 24-14 regular season record is pretty impressive considering where we were when these guys took over. So, evidently, their system is successful at the NFL level. Did we play bad Sunday? Yes. Did we get out-coached Sunday? Absolutely. But in the majority of the 37 games this staff has played prior to that we have mostly played pretty darn good.

What gets me most is that everyone is crashing down on Mularkey after a defensive collapse.

I don't know. I'll take a 4-2 record leading the South and the rest of the NFC.

Color me red.

[DUB]

When did the Falcons become SO good that we expected perfection?

When did we become so good that leading the NFC South and the entire NFC wasn't good enough?

[DUB]

Is that a shot at me? Low standards? Just fine? Tsk....tsk...tsk.

I don't think everything is just fine. I believe that as long as we stay ahead of the pack in the NFC that everything is great.

Some of you guys may not support MM and that's your right.

....but I'll tell you two people that evidently have MM's back....Dimitroff and Smith. So let me ask.......do those two guys 'know football'?

These two guys have stated before how they have a 'shared' philosophy. We want to run the ball and stop the run on defense. That's who those two guys want to be. I saw Mike Smith screaming into the microphone during the Saint's game, "Run the ball"!

My opinion: A 24-14 regular season record is pretty impressive considering where we were when these guys took over. So, evidently, their system is successful at the NFL level. Did we play bad Sunday? Yes. Did we get out-coached Sunday? Absolutely. But in the majority of the 37 games this staff has played prior to that we have mostly played pretty darn good.

What gets me most is that everyone is crashing down on Mularkey after a defensive collapse.

I don't know. I'll take a 4-2 record leading the South and the rest of the NFC.

Color me red.

You keep talking about a defensive collapse yet the offense was not putting up points. I would love a defense that can shut down the opponent but in the real world your offense has to help out and score points.

[HASHBROWN3]

I find myself in between both arguments. Although we find ourselves easily able to defend him from the "overall record" standpoint. It loses some of its credibility when you begin to ask yourselves the following questions: Do you feel that our playcalling is dynamic enough to dominate and confuse our competition? Are we fairly easy to game plan for? Are we making things hard to predict by consistantly throwing new formations and routes at our opponents causing them to mismatch or make a mistake in coverage?

I love this team. We have talent. But are our players relying too much on thier own talent and sheer will rather than being helped out w/ some creative playcalling?

The biggest point is this. Although we are winning w/ vanilla, hard core gamecalling, it is not taking us to the next level. The level at which we can win the bigger games against the cream of the crop teams. Philly, New England, NYG, Baltimore, NYJ, maybe Dallas, Pittsburg etc... Granted, we have beaten a good new orleans team, but Philly was a nightmare twice now. I think a change in the middle of the year is really difficult but long term, I am not a confident man w/ Mularkey as our guy.

[CraigSmackDaddy]

You keep talking about a defensive collapse yet the offense was not putting up points. I would love a defense that can shut down the opponent but in the real world your offense has to help out and score points.

The offense obviously isn't getting it done but the defense was torched for big plays last week. The loss last week fell on both IMO.

[Guest Gritz]

I normally ignore things like this, but it's just adding fuel to the fire with the whole "Fire Mularkey" stuff. I know I'm not the only one who has witnessed numerous topics about this since mid-season last year. Have you actually counted how many topics are about this very subject that are currently active?

I find it hard to have a positive outlook on a team as a fan when it seems like the norm for a lot of other fans is to throw the OC under a bus. But maybe it's my problem, but this is a message board, and like everyone else venting their frustration with the "Fire Mularkey" non-sense, I feel obligated to vent my frustration on them.

You shouldn't let other opinions bother you that much......

As I said earlier, this was primarily done in fun.

It's almost never a good idea to fire either one of your coordinators in midseason. I wouldn't be for the firing of Mularkey at this point.

However, if this offense continues to sputter all season long and we end up near the .500 mark I believe that it will be time to have a new coordinator come to Atlanta.

[sdogg]

You keep talking about a defensive collapse yet the offense was not putting up points. I would love a defense that can shut down the opponent but in the real world your offense has to help out and score points.

Exactly! Offense has been inconsistent and under performing since 09. Def has been more of a strength and the reason for our 4-2 start.

MM is following the same pattern he has at his previous teams. Starts of strong, then starts to fade.