{"id":1668,"date":"2009-08-30T20:07:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T01:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/30\/more-falcons-secondary-bashing\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T09:48:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T14:48:24","slug":"more-falcons-secondary-bashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/30\/more-falcons-secondary-bashing\/","title":{"rendered":"More Falcons Secondary Bashing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Bradley of the ajc just confirmed my earlier post \u2013 the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/mark-bradley-blog\/2009\/08\/30\/dimitroff-its-going-to-be-a-very-busy-two-weeks\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/mark-bradley-blog\/2009\/08\/30\/dimitroff-its-going-to-be-a-very-busy-two-weeks\/', 'Falcons\u2019 secondary sucks');\" target=\"new\">Falcons\u2019 secondary sucks<\/a>.  Big time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Afterward, general manager Thomas Dimitroff said: \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a very busy two weeks.\u201d He would say no more, but the message seemed cleared enough: This is the man who found Domonique Foxworth and Jamaal Fudge near the end of preseason 2008 to prop up his secondary. There seems a strong need to do something similar now.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons liked everything about cornerback Chris Houston in training camp: His preparation, his attitude, his play. But something happened in Saturday\u2019s first half: Houston yielded one big play on third down, then another, then another. If a guy\u2019s going to be your No. 1 cornerback, that can\u2019t happen. Even No. 1 corners get beat \u2014 all corners get beat \u2014 but they can\u2019t let one bad play put them on the back foot the rest of the night.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons must now determine if Houston has the toughness to shrug off a big gainer and keep playing. He seemed to lose his edge against the Chargers, and if he\u2019s incapable of regaining that edge from one play to the next the Falcons need to know it now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now for the money question \u2013 is there enough time to fix the problem before things get out of hand?<\/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=\"https:\/\/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>Mark Bradley of the ajc just confirmed my earlier post \u2013 the Falcons\u2019 secondary sucks. Big time. Afterward, general manager Thomas Dimitroff said: \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a very busy two weeks.\u201d He would say no more, but the message seemed cleared enough: This is the man who found Domonique Foxworth and Jamaal Fudge near &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/30\/more-falcons-secondary-bashing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Falcons Secondary Bashing.<\/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=\"https:\/\/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-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}