{"id":1693,"date":"2009-09-09T01:24:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T06:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/09\/believe-in-the-falcons-fear-the-defense\/"},"modified":"2010-06-04T06:12:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T11:12:29","slug":"believe-in-the-falcons-fear-the-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/09\/believe-in-the-falcons-fear-the-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Believe in the Falcons.  Fear the defense."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But not a good kind of fear.  Nice <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/writers\/peter_king\/09\/08\/mail\/index.html?eref=sihp\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/writers\/peter_king\/09\/08\/mail\/index.html?eref=sihp', 'article');\" target=\"new\">article<\/a> from SI (Peter King).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat\u2019s exciting is we can get some real speed out there this year,\u201d said Dimitroff. \u201cPeople look at our team and say, \u2018You\u2019re missing five starters on defense.\u2019 Do I regret it? No. We might take a step back at first, but we\u2019ll gain experience and continue to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The key is going to be pressure from Abraham, coming off a career year, and the underachieving Anderson, because Houston and Grimes (and probable nickel Hill) are not great cover guys. The Falcons open against three veteran quarterbacks from two 2008 playoff teams \u2014 Miami, Carolina, at New England \u2014 so we\u2019ll see if the Falcons can come together as a young defense quickly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The defense better come together quickly or we will go another year without consecutive winning seasons, which would suck in a big way.<\/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>But not a good kind of fear. Nice article from SI (Peter King). \u201cWhat\u2019s exciting is we can get some real speed out there this year,\u201d said Dimitroff. \u201cPeople look at our team and say, \u2018You\u2019re missing five starters on defense.\u2019 Do I regret it? No. We might take a step back at first, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/09\/believe-in-the-falcons-fear-the-defense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Believe in the Falcons.  Fear the defense.<\/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-1693","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\/1693","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=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2715,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/2715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}