{"id":1706,"date":"2009-09-11T19:34:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T00:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/11\/no-reason-to-be-down-on-the-falcons\/"},"modified":"2010-06-04T05:57:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T10:57:35","slug":"no-reason-to-be-down-on-the-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/11\/no-reason-to-be-down-on-the-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"No reason to be down on the Falcons."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today\u2019s NFC South <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/sportsnation\/chat\/_\/id\/28238\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/espn.go.com\/sportsnation\/chat\/_\/id\/28238', 'blog chant');\" target=\"new\">blog chant<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Greg (Cleveland, OH)<br \/>\nPat, sorry to hear about the passing of your journalist friend. I\u201dm a Falcons fan, but I don\u2019t see the playoffs this year. The offense will be great, the defense is better than the preseason when they were experimenting with blitzes. But a) the Falcons have the WORST schedule in football (not only 4th hardest win%, but more teams coming off the bye than any schedule in recent history), and b) they can\u2019t be as lucky this year with injuries. NO got the honey of a schedule, with no bye-teams, and it\u2019s not like Grant or Smith did anything last year\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Pat Yasinskas (1:02 PM)<br \/>\nThanks. Tom Berry was a great man. I\u2019m proud the Pro Football Writers of America are doing something to keep his memory going. Greg, you sound like a Red Sox fan \u2014 accepting failure before it happens. Your points are valid. But think back to your expectations last year at this time. I\u2019m sure what happened far exceeded those expectations. You might be pleasantly surprised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have had mixed emotions about this year\u2019s team mostly due to the schedule and the defense.  I still need to get in my predictions, but Mr. Yasinskas is talking me off the ledge.<\/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>From today\u2019s NFC South blog chant \u2026 Greg (Cleveland, OH) Pat, sorry to hear about the passing of your journalist friend. I\u201dm a Falcons fan, but I don\u2019t see the playoffs this year. The offense will be great, the defense is better than the preseason when they were experimenting with blitzes. But a) the Falcons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/11\/no-reason-to-be-down-on-the-falcons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No reason to be down on the Falcons.<\/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-1706","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\/1706","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=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}