vel Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 (edited) ESPN Radio's John Clayton sounds like a teenage girl in love when he talks about the Atlanta Falcons these days.Clayton's leg probably tingles for the Dirty Birds just like Chris Matthews when he thinks of President Obama."(The Atlanta Falcons) are dynamic," fawned the adoring Clayton Sunday afternoon on ESPN Radio."The owner is great. The coach is great. The general manager is great. The quarterback is great."If Clayton would have had more time, he would probably sent verbal bouquets of love to the groundskeepers too.Yeah, it was a mutual lovefest on ESPN today as Clayton was joined by Atlanta GM Thomas Dimitroff.Definitely not unrequited love here, folks."And I agree with your statistical mind there, John (Clayton)," said Dimitroff. "I'm always marveling at the way you come up with some of your brilliant information because I think it's right on the dial with regard to our situation."Seems the Atlanta Falcons GM has a pretty high opinion of himself these days. I mean after that big Sports Illustrated feature and all that praise from Clayton."Within reason, every player we coveted throughout the offseason fell into our laps," says Dimitroff. "We accomplished everything we needed to accomplish in our minds...I believe we can play with any team in the National Football League this season and oh, by the way, with Michael Turner and hopefully with our new toy Jacquizz Rodgers, we've added more explosiveness to our offense."That's some mighty big talk coming from the team that managed to stay one step ahead of the New Orleans Saints all last season.Dimitroff says his QB Matt Ryan gives him admiring glances these days too."Matt is really interested in what we're doing with the building of the team. I'll see him from afar and he'll give me a thumbs up with each new signing."Isn't that sweet.Dimitroff and Clayton were both gushing over first-round draft pick Julio Jones, the wide receiver from Alabama."Julio Jones for us has the ability like Roddy White to run after the catch," says Dimitroff. "We need to get more of that. When people are rolled up on Roddy White or people are doing tricky things with Tony Gonzalez underneath...now we feel we can open it up."We feel like we are moving in the direction of having the explosive playmaking element and we hope people are second-guessing themselves when they come into Atlanta to play for us. We need teams saying when they come into play us, 'Wow, we have to face this team again? How are we going to defend them?' "Yeah, those nasty Dirty Birds aren't wasting any time shooting from the lip all right.By the way, Clayton didn't seem nearly as impressed with the offseason work of Saints GM Mickey Loomis and head coach Sean Payton.In fact he didn't even say word one about any of their accomplishments.You see Clayton is so madly in love with Dimitroff and the Dirty Birds these days that I guess the Saints signing of Darren Sproles, Aubrayo Franklin, Olin Kreutz...well, I guess it escaped his attention.Well, ****. It was an an unintentional slight I'm sure.Welcome, folks.Things are just getting warmed up. The war is just beginning down in the NFC South, ya' see.Link Edited August 7, 2011 by vel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gritz Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 It reads like it was written by a sarcastic, embittered Taint fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastbird Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 ATL is gonna fly high this year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vel Posted August 7, 2011 Author Share Posted August 7, 2011 It reads like it was written by a sarcastic, embittered Taint fan.Haha yea but I figured the quoted part would be good. The writer can't change what TD and Clayton said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Falcon Jedi Knight Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 It reads like it was written by a sarcastic, embittered Taint fan.its a bleacher article... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmite Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 It reads like it was written by a sarcastic, embittered Taint fan.It was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullitt Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 It reads like it was written by a sarcastic, embittered Taint fan.They are still under the delusion that they are the best team in our division. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallahassee Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 For many long-time Falcons fans, an article like this has been a long-time coming. To hear the media not only respects what the organization is doing, but is genuinely excited about it would have been unthinkable during the Smith era. It's a great time to be a Falcons fan....Now, let's just get this season started...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLFalcon556 Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 aww bleach report.haha j/p good read tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdogg Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Well I'm happy to see our Falcons getting some love. People always complain how we never get any media love from anyone and then when Clayton shows us some love it seems your bashing him.I could careless what the media thinks and their opinions but it is nice to know that the Falcons are one of the top teams in the NFL with a great Owner, GM and Head Coach along with a team of players that are Super Bowl bound.I remember the 90's and how we hardly ever got any good free agents because no player wanted to come here and play but now a days we have players that actually want to come play and win a Super Bowl for the Dirty Birdz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmite Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Well I'm happy to see our Falcons getting some love. People always complain how we never get any media love from anyone and then when Clayton shows us some love it seems your bashing him.A Saints fan wrote the article, so that's why he was bashing Clayton. He can't handle having the media darling title on another team, especially his arch rival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gritz Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 its a bleacher article...Yeah, I knew that already......still sounds like the author is a sarcastic, embittered Taint fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quizztorris Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Is someone jealous??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy's Home Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Truth to...Power Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Regular Guy Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Well I'm happy to see our Falcons getting some love. People always complain how we never get any media love from anyone and then when Clayton shows us some love it seems your bashing him.I could careless what the media thinks and their opinions but it is nice to know that the Falcons are one of the top teams in the NFL with a great Owner, GM and Head Coach along with a team of players that are Super Bowl bound.I remember the 90's and how we hardly ever got any good free agents because no player wanted to come here and play but now a days we have players that actually want to come play and win a Super Bowl for the Dirty Birdz.Well if you could care less, that means that you still DO CARE and that there's room for you to cut the fat and actually CARE LESS than you currently do :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Flare Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 They are still under the delusion that they are the best team in our division.What's the bigger shock: when they find out they're not the best, or when they find out they're not second best either? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I want Good Coordinators Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Well first off Im going to say that I think Clayton actually does believe some of this stuff, as do I, Of course he is going to say that when he has our GM sitting with him LOL LOL LOL, come on guys, use your heads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayOzOne Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 I heard the last few minutes of the interview and Clayton was very pro-Falcons today. That was tempered by Freddie Coleman who believes the Ain'ts are the best team in the division, but thinks the Birds will be the "second wildcard". Freddie also later put our over/under at 10 wins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robb4242 Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Linkplease, please, please, pleaseDo the world a favor and let people know up front that the link or quoted article comes from the absolute worst place to get any type of legitimate sports information. Bleacher Report is the most unreliable source of any type information. It is only an OP ED piece of work, that most of the time isn't written well enough to be posted in a rural county paper. Every time you read more than a paragraph, you can't help but lose IQ points. You never end up smarter reading anything from that site. It's so bad that they make the AJC sports writers look like Pulitzer Prize winners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbyr Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 please, please, please, pleaseDo the world a favor and let people know up front that the link or quoted article comes from the absolute worst place to get any type of legitimate sports information. Bleacher Report is the most unreliable source of any type information. It is only an OP ED piece of work, that most of the time isn't written well enough to be posted in a rural county paper. Every time you read more than a paragraph, you can't help but lose IQ points. You never end up smarter reading anything from that site. It's so bad that they make the AJC sports writers look like Pulitzer Prize winners.Know what BR.com means? Kinda in the title description. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDaveG Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 How do you let such an obviously biased fan piece to go to press?I know it's Bleacher Report, but still -- that was just awful. You could have lifted it straight from the Saints MB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robb4242 Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Know what BR.com means? Kinda in the title description.missed it in the sub-title....my bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van note Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Truth to...PowerGTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobkowski Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 LOL The article has New Awllins skank fan all over it LOLGO FALCONS !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-dawg Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 the author that wrote it is a big Saints fan and went to Tulane University in New Orleans.Everyone that knows anything about Bleacher Report knows that local bloggers write about their home teams and biases are included and welcomed.nothing suprising here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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