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types of breaks the Saints got last year -- I was watching the Packer Falclowns game and every ball bounced the perfect way for them -- Rodgers fumbles on the 1 - the clowns fall on the ball there but it squirts out of a huge pile - rolls off several players backs right into the end zone -- touchback -- Important play by Gonzalex -- incomplete but not challenged -- then the kick off return with a penalty moving the ball to the 50 for the final drive -- And its not just this week == all tyear long they have been getting every break - Saints miss a 29 yard FG -- Ravens blow it -- etc etc -- Saints are going to have to win out to beat that type of luck if they want homefield advantage ---
 
i hate it when people are right about the ********* falcons. they are being favored right now by the football god. apparently football god has beef with a receiver on the bills.
 
- Hartley's missed chip shot
- 49ers Nate Clements fumbling an INT instead of falling down to seal the W
- LaGarrette Blount suddenly getting soft on a 4th and 1 carry that should have won the game
- Roddy White's push off vs. BAL
- GB's Mike McCarthy treating challenges as if he could take them into the next game
- The facemask on the kickoff


I'm sorry, but even we didn't rely on this many breaks this year. ATL could very well be 6-5/5-6 right now.

I HOPE we play those guys in the playoffs. We're going to kick their ***** in December and again in January.

**** the Falcons.
 
Falcons are a very good team now...but they have had twice the luck that the Saints had last year and half the scheduele....
 
The officiating, if you can call it that has been RANK and BIAS this season like no other and it's ruining the game IMHO.
 
You have to be both good and lucky - unfortunately the Falcons are both this year.

But, it will make the Saints' playoff win in the Georgia Dome all the sweeter.
 
9-2 is just that.
They are that good.
How they got there dosen't matter as much as us not getting there.

"Bring the wood and use it" and we'll be ok
 
The Falclowns are a very good but not a great team benefitting from the fact that there's no dominant team in the NFC this year. Regarding Rogers' fumble at the goalline: I don't consider that the result of luck but more the fact that the Packers had no run game other than their QB's designed draw plays and scrambles. If they had run the ball just decently--or at least attempted it--in short yardage situations, they would have won the game. Anyone who says running the ball doesn't matter in the NFL should just watch a video of that game to be disabused of that notion. The other big factor was special teams. Atlanta's ST were clearly superior to GB's and won the field position battle all game long.
 
Who cares... we control our destiny, and we can't control all of the breaks the turds are getting.

ATL has 3 winnable road games coming... but I think Tampa and Seattle will give them all that they could handle.

We need to take care of our business and everything will work itself out in the end.
 
Dont worry about ATL. If we take of business, we will be fine. I may enjoy it more watching us beat them in ATL after they had a bye anyway.
 
Atlanta seems like a team that makes few mistakes. They are not flashy, and don't make huge plays, but they are able to move the ball methodically. Very scary.
 
Some of you guys sound like Falcon fans.... They were saying the same crap about us last year.... You are better than that!

It's not luck... It's not a curse... They have a good team. How good?

We'll find out in the playoffs.

We will play the Falcons 3 times this year... book it!
 
This thread will probably end up BTL, but until then.....

The Falcons have a solid gameplan. It comes down to "do you have the players who not only are talented enough to execute against them, but focused enough"?

Becuase when I watched the Falcons today and in the overtime loss, I saw a team that doesn't hurt itself. Conservative-- sure. But what you do doesn't matter nearly as much as how well you do it. And the Falcons execute their plan better than anyone else right now. The Falcons are playing the best football right now, better than New England, and better than the Jets.

I hated to say that, but it's true. You want to beat Atlanta? Take them out of their comfort zone. They are most comfortable in a one possession game because it allows them to stay balanced. Even if the run isn't going for much, its enough of a viable threat that you really don't know what's coming next.

So for the Saints (for example) to beat Atlanta, in Atlanta, they have to play mistake free football. I don't care if Sean Payton shows enough threat of balance or if he throws it like there is no running game, they just have to be mistake free. Despite GreenBay's lack of a RB, if Rodgers doesn't fumble on the goaline, that game is entirely different. And despite how our offense played in the first meeting, if we don't turn it over 3 times and miss a FG, we win.

But that's the thing about these Falcons. They find a way to win, and you can argue that the other team doesn't get beat by them and instead beats themselves, but Atlanta is the common denominator and they are forcing the other team into these mistakes. You don't have to be aggressive when the other team knows you are going to eat half a quarter away and probably come up with points on a given drive.

A methodical, slow paced time consuming drive wears out the other defense and is frankly demoralizing through the course of a game. So you better be sure you make each of your possessions count. And Matty Ice shouldn't be the name of the QB, but the FG kicker. That dude is money.

Correct.
 

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