2011 Game Thread

[HMFFL]

Sun 9/11 Chicago Bears at Chicago 1:00 pm
Sun 9/18 Philadelphia Eagles Philadelphia 8:20 pm
Sun 9/25 Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Tampa Bay 4:15 pm
Sun 10/2 Seattle Seahawks at Seattle 4:05 pm
Sun 10/9 Green Bay Packers Green Bay 8:20 pm
Sun 10/16 Carolina Panthers Carolina 1:00 pm
Sun 10/23 Detroit Lions at Detroit 1:00 pm
Bye
Sun 11/6 Indianapolis Colts at Indianapolis 1:00 pm
Sun 11/13 New Orleans Saints New Orleans 1:00 pm
Sun 11/20 Tennessee Titans Tennessee 1:00 pm
Sun 11/27 Minnesota Vikings Minnesota 1:00 pm
Sun 12/4 Houston Texans at Houston 1:00 pm
Sun 12/11 Carolina Panthers at Carolina 1:00 pm
Thu 12/15 Jacksonville Jaguars Jacksonville 8:20 pm
Mon 12/26 New Orleans Saints at New Orleans 8:30 pm
Sun 1/1 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tampa Bay 1:00 pm

[HMFFL]

As season approaches, Ryan is deep thinker

During his Falcons career, quarterback Matt Ryan’s film-room attendance has been well known.

That’s where he finds solace in self-critiques and comes up with various improvement plans, and where he finds what works league-wide and incorporates into the Falcons offense.

This offseason, however, Ryan stepped outside the film room out of necessity. During the 132-day lockout, Ryan was the main organizer of the players-led practices at Buford High and taught the playbook to rookie wide receiver Julio Jones, working hands on.

With no coaches around, Ryan helped lay out plans for what the offense would look like this season.

Ryan found some positive things the unit could carry forward from a 13-3 season, where the Falcons won the NFC South and finished ranked fifth in scoring (25.6 points per game) and 16th in total offense (341.1 yards) in the league.

“We were really good in third-down situations last year and we were pretty good in first- and second-down situations; we gave ourselves a lot of third-and-makeables,” Ryan said.

Yet Ryan was honest about his and the unit's shortcomings.

“One of the areas, and it’s been talked about a lot, is a focus for me, [and that's] throwing the ball down the field and working with the guys throwing the ball down the field,” Ryan said. http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-falco ... 58072.html

[ATL Boy]

Hard Schedule, it looks like Peyton Manning will be out for our game vs the Colts, so that should be and easy win. But because of that my regret is that we have a bye right before that game, it woulda been a whole lot better if that bye was the week before the Saints game.

[lpsevier]

Chicago's lines dominated us on both sides of the ball.

Chalking this up to an ignore type of loss.

[HMFFL]

We have some obvious issues, but I expect the necessary adjustments to be made, so we'll see how we do against Philly. It does hurt that we failed to take advantage of our division woes this week.

The Colts looked terrible. Payton Manning being out is the main problem but it's not the only problem. I was traveling with work yesterday and I was able to watch Cam Newton. I can only go by the numbers but what a hell of a performance.

[kings]

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