Good call P'dog.

I thought hard about it, but couldn't pull the trigger.

Matt Ryan lets his coaches down. He lets his team down. He lets his fans down. He lets Ron Jaworski and Trent Dilfer down. He lets Vegas down. 

The lesson. Matt Ryan will let you down. Never bet on Matt Ryan. Ever. Even against a 1 win team that got routed 4 days earlier. Say no to Matt. 

boy I love watching the falcons lose.  Those clowns really pissed me off during the 2010 regular season and I have enjoyed laughing at their failures ever since.

Carolina going to Seattle this weekend off a bye. That's a whole bunch of interesting. 

Wow, Falcons OL making Cam Jordan look like Reggie White.

Saints live to die another day.

Can't see this team putting a long winning streak together, so all they've likely done is stem the bleeding, but the early losses are festering.

I loved how their little run was squashed every time by GB. Roddy White kept running his mouth and so did their coach and BJ Raji just shut them down after the 2011 win vs them. Raji eviscerated them and I loved it

“We have better players, we have better coaches, we’re a better team,” Raji said after the Packers (5-0) rallied from a 14-0 deficit – and did so without both their starting offensive tackles – to score the final 25 points of the game to beat the Falcons (2-3). “Usually better teams win games. We settled down and played our game, and we won.”

“It’s definitely another dagger in their chests,” Raji continued. “They’ve been talking the whole offseason, they were talking before the game. We don’t worry about that. We’re the champions. We play like champions. We coach like champions. People who talk generally don’t get to where they want to go. And obviously with this team, it’s evident.”

“We adjusted better, we had better players, we had better coaches, so we played better,” said Raji, who didn’t sound like a man expecting a playoff rematch. “I think the (New Orleans) Saints are a better team. They have a better quarterback. The team’s a little bit better. This team is OK."

Saints were routed by a 1 win team 4 days ago. They're not good. Falcons were routed by a 1 win team tonight. They're not good. Carolina is on deck. 

Gods QB is 4-0 against the Panthers. 

PFT’s Week Six power rankings

5. Falcons (5-0; No. 5): The Falcons avoided a pothole. Now, they’ll drive all over the Saints.

MIke Florio. Let down by Matt Ryan. The lesson. Two morons don't make a right. 

Me too man, absolutely loved it.  BJ going off was the icing on the cookies

The most satisfying Packer victory of all times for me was beating the falcons in the divisional playoffs.  Revenge games are always special, GB vs Dallas in 1997 was great, but Dallas wasn't the same team they were in 95.  Beating the Bears in Chicago for the NFC championship was awesome but I knew we would win that game.  Superbowls are the most awesome but I didn't hate the Patriots in 96 and I didn't hate the Steelers in 2010. 

But I HATED the Falcons in 2010 and to go back to their stadium and destroy their #1 seeded asses in front of their loudmouth bandwagon fans,,,,  man I still go back and watch that game every 6 months or so and just smile.  I even watch the post game and the NFL network review of the game. 

I'm sick I know but it makes me happy.

And then there were 5...

Friday January 14th 2011. Hudson Grill in Atlanta. Packer Pep Rally. Two floors of Packer fans wall to wall just dying to take over the Georgia Dome. I was pinned at the bar tossing down cocktail after cocktail trying to listen to Majkowski fire up a small armada. 

Air Tran the next day and the flight attendant telling me to shut my damn phone off the second Atlanta went up 14-7. The guys in row 24 that somehow got an Internet connection at 33,000 feet and all of us lost our damned minds after Tramons pick 6. Thought the pilot was going to set that bird down in Indiana. 

Frozen moment in time. 2010 was a very special year. 

thanks for sharing that Chilli, great story.

I watched that game at Cavetoad's house.  I was so nervous before and during the game until Tramon had that pick 6.  We went crazy and at that moment I realized that the 2010 Packers would beat any team that lined up against us on the way to winning the Lombardi.

Special indeed

There's no good place for a ref/NFL rant, but:

The NFL removed Greg Wilon from Tony Corrente's crew this weekend. Tony and crew are handling New England / Indy on Sunday night. Greg was reassigned to another game. 

The opinion is that the NFL didn't want Greg Wilson becoming a broadcast sideshow focal point in questionable officiating in a game already inundated with questionable NFL behavior after deflate gate. 

Greg Wilson is the ref that didn't throw the flag in Seattle for the batted ball. So the NFL moved Greg to Miami - Tennessee on Sunday. Problem solved. 

But here's the thing. The NFL is blatantly telling Miami and Tennessee their game is irrelevant. If Greg blows another call it's not happening in front of a national audience. And that's what really matters. 

NFL HQ in NY is completely ****ed up. It really is. They don't realize what they are doing is apparent to everyone. Morons trying to run a shell game. Thinking they can shuffle ****ty refs to bad games while completely ignoring the fact the refs as a whole have been pathetic all year.

I was on a business trip and tried to change my flight to Sunday. If you recall the number of Packer fans in that Dome Saturday night you'll understand every flight to WI on Sunday was oversold. 

When I landed in Milwaukee Saturday night my first text was from Tavis Smiley. We were neighbors. That drive home to Grafton was magical. Green Bay was playing a bad team in GB against Seattle or in Chicago against the Bears. What a night. 

Looking back. I wasn't worried about Philly. I wasn't worried about Atlanta. I wasn't worried about the Steelers. I hated the Bears game. I was terrified of losing an NFC Championship to Chicago. 

Which is why Im forever giving Aaron Rodgers a playoff hall pass. He won a Super Bowl. More importantly he beat the number 2 seed Chicago Bears at Soldier Field after Green Bay handed them home field for the NFC Title when they destroyed the 1 seed Atlanta. Don't forget Lovie did everything he could to knock Green Bay out of the playoffs in week 17. Only Nick Collins picked off Cutler to get his vengeance on Chicago after this incident 13 weeks earlier:

Which eventually led to

Sounds like a perfectly good way to exorcise your inner asshole. 

Growing up, I didn't have anything against the Falcons particularly. They had some good players over the years, the "Gritz Blitz", and were just another team to me.

After moving to Atlanta metro late '87/early '88, I began to see for myself how Atlanta was represented by local fans and media. If they were winning, there were "lifelong" fans that would come from every corner of the city, but let them lose...they're nowhere to be seen.

The Packers played some games here in the early 90's, and would push them up and down the field all day--only to lose the game on a series of bone-headed blunders. And these "fans"took great delight in telling us how much better their team was than ours, although it was clear who the better team really was. In the last of the 90's, and into the 2000's, they would thump us one year, and we'd pay 'em back the next. The absolute low point was the home playoff loss to them after the '04 season. 

I took great delight in the Packers thumping them during the '05 season, when we were terrible that year (4-12). That was a fun game to be at.

Then....then came 2010. After they beat us during the season (another series of fluke plays), Falcons fans were DEMANDING to know where the respect for their team was. Locally, there was enough pissing and moaning about it that the local media picked up that 'theme' and ran with it. And, of course, since they finished with the best record and secured the #1 seed, that proved they were right, by God!

Sweet, sweet vengeance showed they were indeed pretenders. Green Bay delivered a blow to them that night so heavy, they still haven't recovered from it. Mortgaging draft picks for Julio came home to roost when injuries started happening, and there was no depth.

And we have pwned their asses every since! 

Truer words have ne'er been spoken.

When the Packers acquired Favre from Atlanta?

Pretty big blow...  

My one of my favorite memories was the dagger call from the radio boys.  (Paraphrasing)

"Not since Sherman has Atlanta been beat so badly"

It was epic.

Agreed that probably my high point as a Packers' fan was watching that Tramon Williams INT for the TD to end the half in that divisional playoff rout of the dirty birds.  That was as exciting a play as I've ever seen as you could see that the Falcons were totally demoralized after it happened and was the turning point in what had been a reasonably close game up to that moment. 

In the 2nd half, any hope that the Falcons had for making a comeback were completely dashed as Aaron Rodgers played some of the best football at QB that's ever been played.  I wasn't the only one that felt that way, some of the talking heads like Mike Ditka said it was the best performance by a QB they had ever seen.  What a game!!!

As for the current version of the Falcons, I think they're a good team that's going to maybe even win 11-12 games, but some of that has to do with a schedule that is on the weaker side.  They are a good team, but not a great one.