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Holding the Jets to 1.95 yards/carry yesterday was Falcons best run defense performance since the 2009 season (vs TB on 1/3/10)


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Agreed Peyton.  Keanu Neal should also be singled out for delivering his best tackling performace of the year but I agree.  It was a total team effort whereas we shut down the ground game. Jarrett, Poe, Devondre Upshaw and Reed also did their part as did Takk.  We got a strong indication that the defense may be trending up!

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Jan 3, 2010

Falcons 20
Bucs 10

Jason Snelling smoked the Bucs for 147 yards on 25 carries. Crisp Owens had a pick and most importantly the Falcons finished 9-7 to complete their first back to back winning seasons in franchise history. Raheem Morris was the head coach for the Bucs at the time.

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Defense absolutely did their job yesterday.. Opening drive TD, then held them to 13 the rest of the game(including 2 fumbles by the offense).  I like what I saw there.  I also will give our offense a break considering weather conditions.  I am pretty unhappy with Sark, it took him a LONG time to say "hey, let's go to shotgun since we've fumbled it 4 times."

 

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21 minutes ago, lostnmexico said:

Agreed Peyton.  Keanu Neal should also be singled out for delivering his best tackling performace of the year but I agree.  It was a total team effort whereas we shut down the ground game. Jarrett, Poe, Devondre Upshaw and Reed also did their part as did Takk.  We got a strong indication that the defense may be trending up!

Gonna  probably catch heat but reed lost contain on a big run earlier in the game. Barber even mentioned it during the gm. You want a decent run, go towards reed and break outside.

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5 minutes ago, red falcon said:

Gonna  probably catch heat but reed lost contain on a big run earlier in the game. Barber even mentioned it during the gm. You want a decent run, go towards reed and break outside.

Not the first and will not be the last time Reed breaks containment but until Quin and Manuel deem Takk ready.....we are counting on Brooks to make those plays.  I really love Takks potential though!  He made one of his tackles 20 yards downfield!  He is going to be a good player in this league for a long time I think!

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We probably have looked at ourselves on film. It has been pretty obvious that a QB sneak would go for 20 yards before he was touched. It takes people to defend the run and we have not been set up to defend it. Apparently it is by choice and is probably a very technically savvy way to defend. Beyond my ability to understand I am sure but if nobody is in the middle of the field and the tackles are spread out I am never surprised when we get gashed. This was much better this week.

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