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Is there any excuse for this team not to have playoff success this year


  

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  1. 1. Is there any valid excuse

    • anything less then playoff win this year will be a huge dissapointment
    • No its parts of the process of racking up regular season wins.


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I gave you an answer boy! Brees took 5 years to win a playoff game! Do you consider Drew Brees an elite QB?

Since we are following the drew brees success model around here, I guess after year 5 anything less than NFCCG is unacceptable.

It's a shame that you can be so dam defensive about Ryan. I was never in a position to use age as an excuse for brees, or any other quarterback. Some of you might have your own cut off point.

Shyt, why not compare to flacco? Or Sanchez or marino? Are you using brees to be a smart arse or just to buy some more time?

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Since we are following the drew brees success model around here, I guess after year 5 anything less than NFCCG is unacceptable.

It's a shame that you can be so dam defensive about Ryan. I was never in a position to use age as an excuse for brees, or any other quarterback. Some of you might have your own cut off point.

Shyt, why not compare to flacco? Or Sanchez or marino?

Marino? Dan Marino? Yea one of the best Qb's to ever play the game,however, no ring. I don't think we need to hope Ryan is the next Marino, although a role in an Ace Ventura movie would be awesome.

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Marino? Dan Marino? Yea one of the best Qb's to ever play the game,however, no ring. I don't think we need to hope Ryan is the next Marino, although a role in an Ace Ventura movie would be awesome.

That would be great!!!

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We will be entering 4th year of this regimen and coming off one of the most embarrassing playoff performances can this team in place with coaching staff and upper management survive another a season without any playoff success ..I do feel heads will roll with Blank not tolerating another let down at end of the year .

From a front office standpoint and moves that were made in draft kind of felt like a win now move at all cost . Understandable Jones is also part of long term future but with that being said you dont scrap the process if you dont feel like you are 1 or 2 pieces away ..Im guessing front office will sure up some positions through free agency when it begins and we are off on our journey

Outside other DE there really isnt a weak area or a dire need ..

QB......check ..ranks anywhere between 8-12

oline ......solid in run blocking and decent in its pass protection

wr - one of best in game and bold move in draft for Julio + depth

TE- while Tony G isnt same player he once was still very reliable

This team will have 4 years to gel and learn every aspect of each scheme on offense and defense. Blank has continued to pour money into this franchise with free agent signings

THERE SHOULD BE NO EXCUSE THIS YEAR

Nothing about defense? I'm not worried about our offense, at all.

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Marino? Dan Marino? Yea one of the best Qb's to ever play the game,however, no ring. I don't think we need to hope Ryan is the next Marino, although a role in an Ace Ventura movie would be awesome.

No you don't need to hope he's the next Marino, but that is still getting away from my point. If Ryan doesn't do what Brees does, then is that the time to loose that age excuse? That question is directed to the ones who brought Brees into this conversation.

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Since we are following the drew brees success model around here, I guess after year 5 anything less than NFCCG is unacceptable.

It's a shame that you can be so dam defensive about Ryan. I was never in a position to use age as an excuse for brees, or any other quarterback. Some of you might have your own cut off point.

Shyt, why not compare to flacco? Or Sanchez or marino? Are you using brees to be a smart arse or just to buy some more time?

Didn't use age as an excuse, what excuse did you use? Man had 1 playoff win in his first 8 years. You going to tell me you were happy with that?
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Didn't use age as an excuse, what excuse did you use? Man had 1 playoff win in his first 8 years. You going to tell me you were happy with that?

Maybe you wern't the one to say "oh he's still young" or "it's only his third year" to justify anything, but I've heard that a lot around here.

And I can care less about what he did in SD, I never had any excuses for him.

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Here is the thing.

There are 15 other teams in the conference. Most all of them are trying really hard to win and a lot of the teams are d*mn good.

The difference between missing the playoffs completely and winning the Super Bowl can be razor thin. GB came really close to missing the playoffs completely last year, people forget all that.

We'll see if it goes the Falcons way this year. It's nice to know that we have a team consistently in the conversation.

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Maybe you wern't the one to say "oh he's still young" or "it's only his third year" to justify anything, but I've heard that a lot around here.

And I can care less about what he did in SD, I never had any excuses for him.

And that answers my question how? Why didn't he win more in the playoffs?

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Well losing in the playoffs with a good team is always dissapointing, on the other hand its not just ryan that is young but most of the team, even if we do lose we will have an intact team overall year to year for the next 10 years. So to say if we don't win it all in 1 or 2 years we will be at a lack of talent is not true at all.

These guys will continue to grow better every year that said if we can continue to rank in the top teams year after year that helps build a dynasty and winning in the regular season hopefully culminating to a superbowl win to secure our team in history. I'm not worried about next year in the playoffs. Id we don't win it all who cares but atleast 13 wins will secure our starters and give them the chance to produce that win we all expect.

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If there isn't any success in the playoffs this year, I bet the first thing I will hear is Ryan is still young, it is only his fourth year starting.

My question is at what point is age not an excuse anymore? year 6, or 7? or sooner or later?

gotta disagree here with ya. any realistic fan is going to start becoming frustrated with Matty if he starts making mistakes at this point. I really can't put our lack of playoff success on him. made a couple of bad decisions, but for the most part he has done pretty well.

He is not nor will ever be Drew Brees in his prime passing for 400+ yards and five touchdowns. the offense does not require it. As far as i am concerned the kid is in his prime right now and for the next four to five years.

The only way i can see us struggling is due to a bigtime injury to one of our topdogs. ryan, roddy, michael. other than that there is no excuse....

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Nothing about defense? I'm not worried about our offense, at all.

I have high hopes for our defense this season. If spoon develops into the player we are all hoping and BVG continues to develop his scheme under smith I like what we have going for us. we are a young and quick D. Like i said in the above post, I think injuries are the only thing that hold us back this year.

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Here is the thing.

There are 15 other teams in the conference. Most all of them are trying really hard to win and a lot of the teams are d*mn good.

The difference between missing the playoffs completely and winning the Super Bowl can be razor thin. GB came really close to missing the playoffs completely last year, people forget all that.

We'll see if it goes the Falcons way this year. It's nice to know that we have a team consistently in the conversation.

Boom!!!! great answer +1

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Here is the thing.

There are 15 other teams in the conference. Most all of them are trying really hard to win and a lot of the teams are d*mn good.

The difference between missing the playoffs completely and winning the Super Bowl can be razor thin. GB came really close to missing the playoffs completely last year, people forget all that.

We'll see if it goes the Falcons way this year. It's nice to know that we have a team consistently in the conversation.

Not only did GB come close to missing the playoffs, they were 30 seconds from losing the first playoff game and having all the discussion about " He can't win a playoff game" being about another QB on a GB messageboard. Then, after they destroyed us, the bears starting QB missed the second half of the next game and the steelers starting center missed the super bowl. There's always luck involved in a super bowl run. Not trying to belittle Rodgers/GB's accomplishments, they took advantage of the luck and certainly stomped the falcons flat, but luck is always involved.

And I'm not going to worry about the playoffs, I enjoyed the HE double hockey sticks out of every single game during the regular season, didn't mind the losses, because you're going to lose a few here and there. Playoffs sucked, but the Packers had the better team that night.

Going to concern myself now with what the team is doing to get ready for the season, wait for training camp and FA signings to start [ I think it'll be soon] and see what the team looks like going into the season- are they going to combine the aggression the D showed in the second NO game with a FA DE and a new more downfield attack on O? I'm excited to see the youngsters on D- see if Moore, Spoon & Jerry can step up and be the playmakers this D needs. And what will Jones do- I can see him lighting it up from the get go. Who'll play on the Oline- can Baker take his game up a notch, are Jackson, Johnson, Valdez, Reynolds & Hawley the real deal?

That's what I thinking about now , got a long ways to go to get to the playoffs- if I worry about that now, I'll miss the good stuff going on now.

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We won't make the playoffs this year. EVERYTIME we have the spotlight on us we just never do especially in back 2 back scenarios where we're trying to make the playoffs. & if we do we'll get blownout like we always do.

Have we ever had back to back to back winning seasons in our Franchise history? I understand the Greenbay game was a big let down in the playoffs for every Falcon fan. But where heading in the right direction.

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All I'm gonna add is to he*l with "the process" talk! I'm done with it.

That was all fine and dandy year 1 and perhaps 2 but that phrase needs to be burried under the practice field at Flowery Branch never to be heard from again.

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