{"id":1666,"date":"2009-08-30T14:10:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T19:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/30\/falcons%e2%80%99-undersized-secondary-spells-trouble\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T14:49:11","slug":"falcons%e2%80%99-undersized-secondary-spells-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/30\/falcons%e2%80%99-undersized-secondary-spells-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons\u2019 undersized secondary spells trouble."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I took the family to Atlanta to make a nice little weekend trip out of the Chargers\/Falcons game.  Atlanta did manage to pull a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/gamecenter\/2009082950\/2009\/PRE3\/chargers@falcons\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/gamecenter\/2009082950\/2009\/PRE3\/chargers@falcons', '27-24 victory');\" target=\"new\">27-24 victory<\/a>, but the Falcons lost the first half, which was a matchup of starting units, 21-13.  Let\u2019s just say that the secondary is somewhat of a mess and spells trouble for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half, the Chargers pretty much did what they wanted, and third down defense for Atlanta was a joke.  I have no idea why Atlanta thought they could let their only legitimate cornerback walk because the current fill-ins are going to be disappointing.  <\/p>\n<p>Grimes and Houston may be athletic and fast, but at some point size and natural talent become a factor.  Unless something crazy happens and the Falcons pick up an unexpected gift during the 53 man roster cuts, or Atlanta somehow works out a trade, I think Falcons are going to be in for a rude awakening.  It does not really matter how good the offense is if the defense cannot shut anyone down.<\/p>\n<p>Someone on the d-line has to step up to put pressure on the QB, which in turn will take some of focus off the secondary.  Right now things do not so good.<\/p>\n<p>On a bright now, Grimes did get a sack on a blitz.  He could work well as a nickel, and occasionally blitz, which would be a better use of his athletic talent.  MLB Loften and FS Erik Colman looked sharp, but other than those two, the defense in the first half of a major bummer.<\/p>\n<p>The kids were pretty much done at the half, so we took it back t the hotel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I took the family to Atlanta to make a nice little weekend trip out of the Chargers\/Falcons game. Atlanta did manage to pull a 27-24 victory, but the Falcons lost the first half, which was a matchup of starting units, 21-13. Let\u2019s just say that the secondary is somewhat of a mess and spells &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/30\/falcons%e2%80%99-undersized-secondary-spells-trouble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falcons\u2019 undersized secondary spells trouble.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,29],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}