Falcons Fan MVP Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 Talk about going from one extreme to the other. We went from looking like the worst defense in the NFL to one of the best defenses in the NFL? Do you guys think the Saints game was a fluke? Or do you think our defense cracked the code and is ready to start clicking on all cylinders? RunningThePiszOuttaTheBall and Malachore 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconBlood23 Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 You shall get your answer this Sunday, patience.. Ergo Proxy, JDaveG, Refried Beans and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast-N-Da-Sheetz Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 I wanna say fluke but with different coaches in different positions, maybe we'll continue to get different results. FalconJim and PokerSteve 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thamill Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 I'm gonna wait until i see it back to back weeks. We stepped up big against Philly and I honestly thought we turned the corner and then we turned into hot garbage again. If we string together a few good "competitive" weeks, I'll believe. HouseofEuphoria, Cole World, ATLskinjob and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunningThePiszOuttaTheBall Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 I think we are that good. From that mindset, the whole first half of the season was the fluke. There’s no way we should have lost most of those games. Since there’s no logic for how bad we played to get to 2-7, I have no idea how to predict what we’ll do from here. I’ll go with this: we’ll continue to be inconsistent and underperform. we’ll finish 4-12. Tim Mazetti, HouseofEuphoria, Godzilla1985 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLSlobberKnockers Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 There.was.improvement before the bye as well so I dont think it's a fluke. It's a fluke in that we kept.NO from scoring a.TD and that isn't going to happen again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPITFIRE Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 there are no flukes ATLSlobberKnockers and FalconBlood23 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ergo Proxy Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 That’s the million dollar question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11=team Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 I believe we identified the potential, but whether there is the will to continue is the question. If we only have one more W this year I sure hope it's on Thanksgiving. Godzilla1985 and Ergo Proxy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runshoot Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 I didnt see any 3-4 alignments this game. Did anyone see 3-4 from us? Could be we scrapped all the "tinkering" and went back to basics. Ergo Proxy and PokerSteve 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcanuck Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 The Falcons will probably motivate themselves to play to their potential for 2-3 more wins on the year, for a very unfortunate record of about 5-11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ergo Proxy Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 11 minutes ago, runshoot said: I didnt see any 3-4 alignments this game. Did anyone see 3-4 from us? Could be we scrapped all the "tinkering" and went back to basics. Yep, no 3-4. Takk and Vic hands in dirt. That and Morris helping the secondary; which cannot be overstated. Peteshweddy, SexualChocolate, runshoot and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vel Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 Nothing they did was overly exotic. They did their jobs on defense and showed a lot of balance and formations to keep the defense off balance. Effort on every play. Clear communication. Football isn't hard. The Falcons have just made it look hard all season. ATLSlobberKnockers, JDaveG, SPITFIRE and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconsIn2012 Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 Confidence is a funny thing. The talent was never really the question. Quinn & Co looked flat, listless and without confidence all year. That was not the case vs the Saints. If the same confident group we saw in NO remains the rest of the year, we will be a very tough out Ergo Proxy and falconsd56 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droopy1592 Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 1 hour ago, runshoot said: I didnt see any 3-4 alignments this game. Did anyone see 3-4 from us? Could be we scrapped all the "tinkering" and went back to basics. It was 3-3-5 looked like though. But yeah not the typical 3-4 we’ve been failing at. runshoot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octoslash Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 This is a good question. Quinn's team usually look good after the bye, then pretty lame the following game. Carolina is at home and coming off a tough loss at Green Bay, and in recent years the Falcons have pretty much owned them, Atlanta going 7-3 in the last ten meetings. The momentum from both teams games last Sunday suggests the Falcons could be finally healing, and the Panthers beginning their annual fall to earth. But with this Falcons season...any prediction is going to be based on almost nothing concrete. Like I said, good question. Ergo Proxy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyin' In DC Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 I think the potential is there to keep this up. I think the collaboration between Morris and Ulbrich worked really well on Sunday. McCaffery is a different kind of threat than anything the Saints have. But, it seems that Debo has a lot of his quickness back could go a long way to limiting the damage he does. PokerSteve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerSteve Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 11 hours ago, thamill said: I'm gonna wait until i see it back to back weeks. We stepped up big against Philly and I honestly thought we turned the corner and then we turned into hot garbage again. If we string together a few good "competitive" weeks, I'll believe. Agree. We all were certain that Philly game marked a return to competitiveness, but that was just a tease. However I will say this effort vs the Stanks looked a lot more dominant the whole game, especially the 4th quarter. In the Philly game the defense was fortunate to escape without allowing a winning TD pass late. The Stanks got shut down completely in the last few minutes of Sunday's game. I'm looking forward to next Sunday's game with way, way more confidence they've found something legit to build on. ATLskinjob, 4dabirds, thamill and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDaveG Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 Wait and see. I'm in the "show me" phase. I loved what I saw, don't get me wrong. But I want to see consistency. We know they can do it. The question is will they? ATLskinjob, Falconsfan567, falconsd56 and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thofin21 Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 Only time will tell if it's real or a flash in the pan.The coaching shuffle worked like a charm against the Saints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osiruz Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 One thing I learned from my 2 decades of being a Falcons fan is never to count my eggs before they hatch. And when they hatch you take a rubber hammer to those forsaken eggs to ensure they dont miraculously unhatch themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukfalc Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 Hopefully we maintain the improvement, but I wouldn't bet on it. Every season has ups and downs, so a team is never as good as it's best performance suggests, or as bad as its worst game. Last week was by far our best performance, but we have also had 7 games where we've stunk the joint out, looked unprepared and indisciplined and hardly even been competitive. PokerSteve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GritsPittz Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 I think it's going to look good enough through out the rest of the year to make us draft in the 12-18 range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezekiel 25:17 Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 For the mere fact that winning these games will result in only a feel good story and a worse draft pick, they will probably go 6-2 in the last 8 games! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califalcon0013 Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 (edited) 7 games before that say it was a fluke but i want to believe theyre going to play to their potential Edited November 12, 2019 by Califalcon0013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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