{"id":3237,"date":"2010-12-04T07:13:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T12:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2010-12-04T07:13:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T12:13:28","slug":"falcons-%e2%80%93-where-is-the-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/12\/04\/falcons-%e2%80%93-where-is-the-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons \u2013 Where is the respect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this one up via ESPN; where is the respect for the Falcons?  Tomorrow\u2019s game at Tampa Bay is a game with huge playoff implications for both teams, the NFC South, and of course any teams in the NFC scrambling for a Wild Card sport.  It looks like most of the country will not get an <a href=\"http:\/\/the506.com\/sports\/?p=1472\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/the506.com\/sports\/?p=1472', 'opportunity');\" target=\"_blank\">opportunity<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/the506.com\/sports\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/the506.com\/sports\/', 'the506.com');\" target=\"_blank\">the506.com<\/a>) to see a really good Falcons team, and a nice up and coming Bucs squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheers to Smitty<\/strong><br \/>\nEarlier this week I wrote about Ryan being pivotal in turning around the Falcons.  The same can be said for <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/nfcsouth\/post\/_\/id\/16032\/mike-smith-on-verge-of-atlanta-record\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/nfcsouth\/post\/_\/id\/16032\/mike-smith-on-verge-of-atlanta-record', 'Coach Mike Smith');\" target=\"_blank\">Coach Mike Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With a victory on Sunday against Tampa Bay, Smith will reach the second 10-win season of his three-year career. Smith went 11-5 in 2008, his first season with the Falcons. No Atlanta head coach, in the team\u2019s 45-year history, ever has won 10 or more games in more than one season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Falcons are favored by 3 over the Buccaneers.  The Bucs played ATL really close at the Georgia Dome a few weeks ago, and I expect much of the same thing early; however I do expect the Falcons to pull away early in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Go Falcons!<\/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>I picked this one up via ESPN; where is the respect for the Falcons? 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It looks like most of the country will not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/12\/04\/falcons-%e2%80%93-where-is-the-respect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falcons \u2013 Where is the respect?<\/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-3237","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\/3237","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=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}