McDuffie just got his feet tangled and it effected him more than Mooney.
The Drake London TD was a blown coverage by Johnson....just a young player mistake on a WR switch route. Didn't take the pass off from Tranquill.
Worthy with a nice pitch and catch for 10 yards and follow up with a nice catch and run for 6 yards. Worthy really does seem to play defense well when the pass has a chance to be intercepted. Gah just stopped running on that route...gotta keep running through that route.
Steele really showing his mettle with some nice hard runs and good chunk yards.
Perine also with some solid runs, he is no Pacheco but between him and Steele....I can only imagine what Hunt will bring as well.
Rice has some sick moves in the open field with some of his stop and go stuff.
Gotta make that catch in the 2nd quarter just before half - in his defense Mahomes threw it a bit behind him but it was catchable.
Wanya seems to be faring well so far and as the game has gone on.
Mahomes just got fooled by a good DB on the INT.
Jones stupid mistake on the RTP that led to a score to put the Falcons up by 7. Gotta play more disciplined.
The crushing hit and fumble by FAU on Cousins was a beautiful thing to watch. Too bad the penalty for kicking the ball out of bounds isn't more stiff. I would make it a 15 yarder and a loss of down.
That pick by Connor was a perfect result of Jones destroying the OL and pushing them back into Cousins face. The second half is going to be rough for them.
The goal line series of plays, I get that we have been stuffing it down their throat but it seems like we go back to the well too much. The 2nd down play was an obvious run...should have had another play action play called. Still got. a FG but we need more TD's. FG's are going to come back and bite us.
Defense starting to look better...make Cousins find someone open and let a 3 man rush flush him.
Juju finally on the board with a catch and Tuddy. Love this for him.
Then Butler does the next to impossible and actually hits the upright square on, on the XP.
Spags with the unique and timely blitzes forcing a long FG attempt by the Falcons.
Props to Ariza for being able to snag that wild snap and still get an amazing kick off to pin ATL.
Great goal line stand, Cook with two pass breakups - the first one could have been called DPI as he never got around to make a play on the ball but the refs just let them play it out.
Where was the illegal hands to the face on Connor and was it just me or was that a very questionable DPI. The WR just ran into McDuffie standing still, I guess that's a make up call for the Cook non-call.
Killing ourselves with penalties tonight. Gotta get the silly calls (that actually happen) cleaned up.
The DEFENSE saves the day again for us. Would love to see the offense get a little more in sync but I love seeing the Defense come up big to save the win.
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Originally Posted by Coogs:
There were three times for sure, and I actually think there were four, where Atlanta lost control of the ball and got everyone of them back. Even coming up with one of them maybe makes this game a route. First one was Atlanta’s first drive where the ball came free from the WR and popped right back to him. I think the second one was the QB miss handling the snap, and it went right to the RB. The third one was the sack fumble that got kicked out of bounds. And I think the last one was on the next to last or last drive of the game. No, not the two that were down by ground contact by the arms either. Those weren’t fumbles.
There was also the punt return where the ball popped out. Atlanta had their fair share of lucky bounces in that game. I wish kicking the ball out of bounds to avoid turnover would be a stronger penalty. It's a chickenshit play. Make it 30 yards instead of 10 yards on the penalty.
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