Category Archives: Atlanta Falcons
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Falcons’ MLB Curtis Lofton has been named NFC Defensive Player of the Week for his performance vs Tampa Bay in Week 17…from the NFL…
Lofton had 14 tackles and a 26-yard interception-return touchdown in the Falcons’ 45-24 win over Tampa Bay.
In the second quarter, he recorded his third career interception and returned it 26 yards for his first career TD.
Lofton led the Falcons with 14 tackles in the game. Nine of his 14 tackles were either within five yards of the line of scrimmage or behind it, including two tackles for a loss. Six of his tackles were either within three yards of the line of scrimmage or behind it.
Lofton led the team in tackles for the third consecutive season.
In his fourth year from Oklahoma, this is Lofton’s first career Player of the Week Award.
Lofton is the second Falcon to be named Defensive Player of the Week in the past three weeks (JOHN ABRAHAM, Week 15). The last time Atlanta had two players honored on defense in a three-week span was 2002 when KEITH BROOKING (Week 11) and BRADY SMITH (Week 12) won the award.
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Atlanta Falcons’ QB Matt Ryan is not considered among the elite in the NFL. He is, pretty damn good, though. If you check his stats Ryan is practically step-for-step with our Eli Manning, who is now being considered one of the league’s top QBs:
Both QBs threw 29 TDs this season. Ryan had a 92.2 QB rating, just a liver below Eli’s 92.9. Eli’s completion percentage was 61% while Ryan’s was a bit higher at 61.3. Eli averaged 36 attempts per game to Ryan’s 35. Manning was 21st in the league when it came to getting sacked (28 times). Ryan was 29th with 26 sacks.
This week, Ryan goes up against the Giants’ red-hot pass rush, who are coming off back-to-back performances of five sacks or better. Ryan had some thoughts about the group that will be aiming to throttle him this Sunday:
Tagged ATLANTA FALCONS, Matt Ryan, New York Giants, NFL Playoffs |
Below are highlights (if you can call them that) of the Giants’ 14-7 loss to the Atlanta Falcons at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, CT on Oct 6, 1974.
The Giants were one of the bottom-feeders of the NFL in those days and you can see why in this clip. They had very little on both sides of the ball. Ray Rhodes is actually still a receiver at this point in time!!!
The team was playing in Connecticut because the Meadowlands was being built and Yankee Stadium was being renovated.
They were in their first year under former Dolphins’ defensive guru Bill Arnsparger, who did not bring much of that Miami magic north with him….
Big Blew went 2-12 in 1974 and the only memorable part of this season were those painful trips to and fro New Haven to witness it
Tagged 1974, New York Giants Blogs, NFL |
With five weeks remaining in the regular season, eleven of the sixteen NFC teams are still mathematically in the playoff hunt.
That includes three sub-.500 NFC West teams (St.Louis, Seattle and San Francisco) and the 5-6 Washington Redskins. The Redskins’ chances are slim since they would have to win every game the rest of the season and hope for some divine intervention along the way to qualify for the post season.
The West winner will most likely be the only entrant into the NFC Playoffs from that bracket, so we will not include them in any of our league-wide scenarios going forward unless something dramatic occurs.
Tagged New York Giants Blogs |
by Jon Wagner / Pro Football NYC
NFC’s Top Seed Might Not Matter for Most in Contention
By the week before Thanksgiving, at least one or two teams in each NFL conference usually emerge as the conference’s elite, just ahead of the next tier of contenders.
Not this year though, in the NFC, where with eight weeks left in the regular season, nearly half of the conference (7 of 16 teams) is not only very much in contention for a playoff spot or a division title, but for the NFC’s number one seed, as well.
Atlanta currently has the edge as the NFC’s only team with fewer than three losses, but no less than six other teams are right on the Falcons’ heels with identical 6-3 records.
Tagged Green Bay Packers, New York Giants Blogs |
Don Banks of SI.com reports that the Eagles have pulled ahead of the Atlanta Falcons in the Tony Gonzalez sweepstakes.
The two teams are still haggling over what draft pick the Eagles will be trading. The Eagles are willing to trade a third-round pick for Gonzalez, the Chiefs are looking for a second-round draft pick.
Pro Football Talk reports that the Eagles and Falcons also have interest in Oklahoma State tight end Brandon Pettigrew.
Update, April 23 @ 4:26pm…
So much for that. Jay Glazer at Fox Sports reports that the Chiefs have agreed to a deal to send Tony Gonzalez to the Atlanta Falcons for a second-round pick in the 2010 draft.
