{"id":1992,"date":"2010-02-05T09:44:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/05\/falcons-staying-the-course\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T22:09:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:09:34","slug":"falcons-staying-the-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/05\/falcons-staying-the-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons Staying the Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Yasinskas (<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/nfcsouth\/post\/_\/id\/8069\/checking-in-with-thomas-dimitroff\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/nfcsouth\/post\/_\/id\/8069\/checking-in-with-thomas-dimitroff', 'NFC South Blog at ESPN');\" target=\"_blank\">NFC South Blog at ESPN<\/a>) has posted some comments from an interview with Atlanta Falcons GM Thomas Dimitroff.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dimitroff did say the Falcons will continue to try to build mostly through the draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I can tell you is that the draft will continued to be need based for us,\u201d Dimitroff said. \u201cAnd I can tell you it won\u2019t be as lopsided as it was last year when we only took one offensive player or the year before when we kind of focused on offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dimitroff also said that injured players Harry Douglas, Brian Williams, Peria Jerry and William Moore are all progressing well in rehabilitation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are several interesting nuggets of information.  First, I think we all knew that the Falcons would continue to build through the draft.  No surprises.  It sounds like the Falcons will split offensive and defensive needs in the draft, but I think they should focus heavily on defense.  Second, the rehab update is good news.  I am not sure if Brian Williams can return as the best d-back in the secondary, but if Peria Jerry is fully recovered, the secondary will get better instantly.  If Harry Douglas regains his speed, that will be a major coup for the Falcons.  It is almost like the walking wounded will be key draft picks, which will help since the Falcons without a second round pick.<\/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>Pat Yasinskas (NFC South Blog at ESPN) has posted some comments from an interview with Atlanta Falcons GM Thomas Dimitroff. Dimitroff did say the Falcons will continue to try to build mostly through the draft. \u201cWhat I can tell you is that the draft will continued to be need based for us,\u201d Dimitroff said. \u201cAnd &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/05\/falcons-staying-the-course\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falcons Staying the Course<\/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-1992","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\/1992","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=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}