{"id":1905,"date":"2009-12-28T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/12\/28\/enter-kroy-biermann\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T06:30:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T11:30:50","slug":"enter-kroy-biermann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/12\/28\/enter-kroy-biermann\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter Kroy Biermann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/12\/27\/falcons-defeat-bills-31-3-one-win-from-making-franchise-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday<\/a>; at the game a lot of us went nuts seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/football\/nfl\/players\/8931\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/football\/nfl\/players\/8931\/', 'Biermann');\" target=\"_blank\">Biermann<\/a> on the last two kick offs.  I figured that Koenen must have been hurt, but I did not realize that he was out of the game in la-la land.  Concussions seem to be a dime a dozen these days, but Koenen\u2019s injury is significant for several reasons \u2013 he handles kick off and punts, and he does both very well.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/nfcsouth\/post\/_\/id\/6718\/falcons-get-by-with-patches-on-special-teams\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/nfcsouth\/post\/_\/id\/6718\/falcons-get-by-with-patches-on-special-teams', 'NFC South Blog');\" target=\"_blank\">NFC South Blog<\/a> shows that Matt Bryant was also injured in the game, which explains why Atlanta went for a few unusual fourth down attempts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMichael Koenen suffered a concussion making a tackle. Place kicker Matt Bryant suffered a hamstring injury.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Falcons have battled their share of injuries all season, but these two are distressing; when Atlanta visits Tampa Bay next weekend, the Falcons may need a game winning field goal to beat the suddenly hot Buccaneers.<\/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>I mentioned this yesterday; at the game a lot of us went nuts seeing Biermann on the last two kick offs. I figured that Koenen must have been hurt, but I did not realize that he was out of the game in la-la land. Concussions seem to be a dime a dozen these days, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/12\/28\/enter-kroy-biermann\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enter Kroy Biermann<\/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-1905","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\/1905","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=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}