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USAF HART said:
I don't know if we have the best offense in the NFL, but on paper it stacks up that way. We have playmakers at every skill position on the field. Nobody knows how well it will translate to on field success, but the team (again, on paper) looks to be one of the best in the NFL.
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Ladies and gentlemen, your 2013 champions on paper: the Atlanta Falcons.
 
jerryrip said:
A Super Bowl ring belongs to the diehard fans just as much as it belongs to the team. We're the ones who've suffered for 35 years to get this Super Bowl victory, so don't tell me that this doesn't belong to us as well. As far as your defense, at least it was WAY better than most of our defenses in the past few years, and we've got a ring. Please use another excuse for your team's ineptitude. Don't insult our intelligence.
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I can't agree with you. You didn't play a single down in any game of the season. You didn't participate in any practices. Your emotional investment in the team may have made you feel like you got a ring, but football is a form of entertainment. You saying that is like me saying I followed a professional wrestler for so many years and he finally won a heavyweight championship and since I was following him from the start I won it too.

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SaintsGold said:
Ladies and gentlemen, your 2013 champions on paper: the Atlanta Falcons.
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USAF HART said:
I can't agree with you. You didn't play a single down in any game of the season. You didn't participate in any practices. Your emotional investment in the team may have made you feel like you got a ring, but football is a form of entertainment. You saying that is like me saying I followed a professional wrestler for so many years and he finally won a heavyweight championship and since I was following him from the start I won it too.

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With all due respect, you don't understand because your team has never won the Lombardi.
 
Pai Mei said:
With all due respect, you don't understand because your team has never won the Lombardi.
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No, I do understand because the Atlanta Braves have won a world series before. I know what it's like to experience a crowning achievement for a team that you have an emotional attachment to. I would even venture out to say that I do understand simply because the Falcons have NOT won a championship. I know how bad it hurts to come up short year after year after year.
 
USAF HART said:
I can't agree with you. You didn't play a single down in any game of the season. You didn't participate in any practices. Your emotional investment in the team may have made you feel like you got a ring, but football is a form of entertainment. You saying that is like me saying I followed a professional wrestler for so many years and he finally won a heavyweight championship and since I was following him from the start I won it too.

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If you would've invested your hard earned $$ in that wrestler buy purchasing tickets, souvenirs, jerseys, etc, I could say you can use that analogy, but since you probably didn't it's not even in the same ballpark. Do I think that I am a SB Champion? HELL NO, but I do associate myself with it since I have dedicated so much time, money and effort into the Saints.

This is probably new to ATL fans since 95% of them became fans in the last 5 years. You see, he did say "diehard" fans, something most of Atlanta knows nothing about when it comes to the Falcons
 
The Falcons seem to fold at crunchtime of destiny games because of the historical weight of demons to overcome. We've seen Ryan and Smith play and coach above average for so many long stretches of games and seasons, but when the moment of truth arrives, Ryan's body language reverts to being physically and mentally weak and inexperienced.

Falcons just can't seem to overcome the franchise's failure. The loss in the Super Bowl and having a star player arrested for pleasure shopping the night before. The home loss blowout to the Packers. The 2 pointer against the Giants. The near-collapse at home against the Seahawks and the collapse at home against the Niners. 1-4 playoff records for 5 years of regular season proficiency. And last, the burden on the psyche of longtime Falcons fans that the Saints won the decades long race and got a ring.

Some seasons the Falcons have a lot of magic fairy dust that gets them wins. Next season, I look for them to take a big step backward.
 
I remember Big Mouth dubbing them "The Greatest Show on Turf Part 2" two years ago.


Yeah...
 
As long as Mike Smith is their head coach, that team is never going to win a championship. He may eek out a lot of wins in the regular season, but that doesn't cut it in the playoffs. The falcons were held scoreless in the second half of the NFCCG and blew a 17-point lead at home (not to mention that they blew a big lead against the Seahawks the week before that and should have lost that game). The offense didn't score a single point in the playoffs the previous year and was humiliated by the Packers at home the year before that. Mike Smith can't handle high-pressure games.
 
pirttihirmu said:
IMHO Falcons offense is really good on paper. A top notch WR-duo in Jones&White, a HOF TE Gonzo, a good QB that maybe isn't too good with pressure. Now with the upgrade on RB position things look good. Biggest worries are the O-line keeping up the good work, hoping the new RB works right away, conservative playcalling at times and associated coaching issues and maybe, just maybe Matty Meltdown.

To be absolutely clear I enjoy pain for the Falcons, but that doesn't make me stupid or delusional enough to think they have a bad team. It just makes our winning record against them a bit more tasty.

Matt Ryan elite? No. After a ring. not for me. I'll maybe have to watch more Falcons matches (yuck) but from what i've seen there's just not that sort of greatness in his game. It really is a thin line and we're already talking about a subjective term so basically it's a matter of perception and opinion. P.manning and Brees can compare their record-resumes but aside from that it's hard to gather real evidence about what's the QBs merit and what depends on countless variables.
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Good post and I do agree with most of it but I don't see replacing a 10 year running back with another 10 year veteran as an upgrade.:jpshakehead:
 

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