Arizona is good...pretty damn good, and their coach is a proven winner. Just look at the steelers record with him and after he left. All the dude does is win.
We'll see. Their defense is nasty but their offense is garbage. I'm gonna wait to see how they do against Dallas and Philly these next two weeks before I call them a playoff team.
I havent really payed attention to the falcons this year... What is their problem? what needs fixing?
Steve Jackson was out of gas when they signed him and this is year two of that disaster. The O-Line has no depth so when Sam Baker went down with his usual season-ending injury, there's nobody to stop the bleeding. The Falcons have drafted particularly poorly on the line. They gave away a lot of high picks for Julio, so they left themselves little margin for error. They have a second rounder Peter Konz that they drafted to play center and actually pushed their Pro-Bowl center Todd McClure into retirement to promote, but at the start of the season Konz was benched...and they didn't really even need a center, they needed a road-grating right guard. Double fail. Since Thomas Dimitroff has been here, the only hits they made in the draft have been mostly the sure bets: Ryan, Jones, Matthews. They hit on Curtis Lofton, then let him walk as a free agent. The jury is still out on Trufant, mostly because since there's absolutely no pass rush you can't tell how much is really the corners faults. The other first rounders have either been busts (Peria Jerry, now retired, drafted ahead of Clay Matthews) or constantly injured (Baker, Sean Weatherspoon). William Moore was a solid second rounder, but he gets hurt constantly as well and had in college. None of their 3rd rounders have turned out. They've got decent value in the 5th with Jacquizz Rodgers and Levine Toilolo, but neither will make a pro-bowl. They've drafted 6-8 pass rush projects players, none of which have worked out. And one last thing that bothers locals is that they do almost all of their drafting from colleges outside the SEC. They drafted a linebacker from UGA, Akeem Dent, that was wrong for their system and would've cut him before they shucked him off to the Texans for shitty TJ Yates. Then they've bombed in free agency as well. Nobody even bothered to pick up Ray Edwards after they cut him 18 months into a 5 year deal. Umenyiora is a corpse. None of the linemen they signed this past offseason seem worth a shit. So basically we have the shell of the team they inherited in '08 playing along with a bunch of busts, 5th rounders and undrafted guys. The core of any 3-4 defense is the linebackers. Right now the Falcons have a 5th rounder that spent most of last season on IR with a torn Achilles, 2 undrafted guys in the middle and a rotation of 4th and 5th round nobodies.
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> packers beat bears by 21
>lions and bears suck
racist
> Ed disses Bears
> no flag
ky you bitchmade white knight faggot
Thats why the Falcons suck