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The only person who runs a 4.2 on the Falcons is Antone Smith. Hester's 40 doesn't tell you but like you said, we all know he is pretty fast as well.

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Lemme rephrase; faster/quicker than most corners/safeties... That's why you play with a cushion

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I think the DBs are more to blame than the DLine. A lot of times we rushed 4 and pressure was coming but Ryan delivered quickly. If we rush 4, guys shouldn't be wide open immediately.

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This is probably the worst freakout I have ever seen on B&G.

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We were giving the Falcon's recs a huge cushion. Maybe RR expected our pass rush to throttle their o-line?

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I was expecting more from our D-line. Especially going against backup tackles in the second half. I was quite surprised to see the big cushions from our DBs. If you play like that and don't generate any passrush just about any Qb will pick you apart.

Cooks seems to be everything we have hoped. Good hands and great speed. My favorite play of his was on one of the Ingram runs when he placed a really nice cut-block to spring the runner.

Ingram looked really solid. He is getting to be the back I was hoping for when we drafted him. PT also looked really good.

The whole O in general looked sharp. A little to much pressure on Brees at times but the O-line looked good.

And about calling the Falcons a west coast offence; they are not. As a previous poster stated, they are a vertical offence and the great thing about a vertical offense is that a lot of times sending guys deep opens up the underneath routes. Dink and dunk and west coast is not the same thing.

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Uh... The OT rules ARE like the playoffs now. We did get a chance and we DID blow it.

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And we bent but didn't br.. oh wait... We broke nearly every single time.

We have played these guys before when they were healthy and our defense was bad, and yet we still played much better in those games than we did in this game. You don't play that far back. It doesn't matter how fast someone is. We have speed too. If you play that far back, they will bleed you to death, which is exactly what happened. There were a couple of big plays downfield, but it was mostly intermediate crap and there were no defenders in sight.

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Nah.. Last year against the Seahawks (in the regular season) was worse

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exactly... and to make matters worse when the defenders tried to come up and make a tackle they missed which lead to even more big plays.

The more I re-watch the game and think about it, the more I have to say the scheme was ****ed up. ATL is known for a dink-and-dunk offense and we let them play their game all day.

In my mind this loss is squarely on the shoulders of Rob Ryan. Just my opinion.

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terrible clock management

colston then ingram don't go out of bounds with 3 time outs
inside the 15 with 1:30 remaining

should have ran it out in regulation

similar issue at the end of the first half which gave Atlanta the opportunity for a field goal

no chicken little here
but where was Cam crickets, Hakeem crickets, Junior crickets
why more cushion than a Serta Sleeper wherehouse?

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Seahawks 36
Packers 16

Panthers 20
Bucs 14

49ers 28
Cowboys 17

Broncos 31
Colts 24

Eagles 34
Jaguars 17

Saints 34 (blowing a 20-7 lead)
Falcons 37

The Saints defense allowed 568 total yards, worse than any single game from the 2012 season where they were statistically the worst defense in history.

Clearly one of these teams is currently Not Ready For Prime Time....

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I wish we had a chance to answer. If we couldn't score after than then game over. NFL overtime rules blow.

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no

these rules are better than the old get down to the 30 kick a field goal and win

we were driving, had our chance with the ball
turnover and clutch kick cost us the game

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Well if we had better clock management that turnover and FG kick would be moot.

I think we'd learn from it and move on but its going to hurt and cost all season.

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Splitting with Atlanta is a wash for the division. They won't play at that level for every game, and we will just play better. They played their ass off against us and just barely won on an unfortunate late mistake.

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You have to be talking about the Cowboys.

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This is going to come back to bite us when we have to go to Seattle and lose in the NFC championship game. We have to have home field in the playoffs.

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If we allow a game to go into OT then we deserve to lose.

Better clock management run the clock out have give them little time to go down the field on us we win.

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I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that no NFL team will go 6-0 in their respective division this year, and that no NFL team will go undefeated this year.

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Two words: missed tackles.

SFIAH

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So we're already presuming that Seattle is going to go 15-1?

Smart money says don't bother to look at playoff seeding until every team has played at least 8 games.

And honestly, if Seattle cannot be beat on their home field, then why think anyone else should be the NFC representative?

This season isn't about Seattle. This season is about the Saints finding a way to be the best team they can be.

Fortunately it's a long season. There are at least 15 more games for the team to get better.

Honestly defense or no defense, if the Saints can score 34 PPG on the road, I'd take my chances with them...

SFIAH

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The Saints are 3-5 in their last 8 games, and 7-6 in their last 13 (since the bye week of last season, .538 win percentage).

When are we allowed to admit that there is possibly a problem, beyond just this one game yesterday?

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Also we put up 472 yards of offence on their defence, so there defence wasn't that spectacular! We will be fine, keep the faith :-).

You think you feel bad as a Saints fan after that loss, or course you do but, imagine how the Pats fans and Tampa fans feel right now. The Bucs got beat by a back up QB!!!!!!!!!!!!

GEAUX SAINTS!!!!

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We're 6-5 in our last 11 games with 2 losses to SEA, 1 to CAR, 1 to STL and 1 to Atlanta.

3 of those losses to playoff teams on the road, all 5 losses also on the road.

Combined record of the teams we lost to on the road 57-21

We're 8-0 in our last 8 home games.

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What I saw was part of the problem somewhat resolve itself (offense), and a new problem arise (defense).

Last year, the offense was the primary problem down the stretch against good defenses. 7 and 15 to Seattle, 13 to the panthers, 16 to the Rams. All 4 of these games were on the road. Tough to win when scoring less that 21 points.

The defense just got shellacked this weekend. It's unreasonable to think you can give up 37 points and expect to win. In those last 13 games, the team never gave up that many points.

Until we have more data, it's best to call it an aberration.

SFIAH

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The AFC west has three teams tied for the division lead after one week. Seattle is tough at home, no doubt, but they are not a given for their division, especially if SF can keep remembering how to score points.